Another way to find the primary server for a zone

[Brad Knowles]

At 4:48 PM +0100 5/10/01, Jim Reid wrote:

>                                         However if you plan to use
>  Dynamic DNS (DDNS), you *must* provide the name of the master server
>  in the MNAME. This is the only way for DDNS clients to find out where
>  to send their dynamic update requests. These obviously can only be
>  processed on the zone's master server.

	Interesting.  I was not aware of this use of the MNAME field.  I 
guess this kind of rules out stealth primaries, eh?

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles at skynet.be>

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