two primary's

[Chris Buxton]

On Mar 5, 2008, at 3:06 AM, Niall O'Reilly wrote:
> 	The terms 'primary' and 'secondary' (or better, 'fallback', since
> 	there may even be more than two) are still useful when describing
> 	the set of resolver servers which provide name resolution for each
> 	client (running only a stub resolver) _within a network_.  IMHO,
> 	this is the only sensible use of these terms.

Actually, outside of BIND's nomenclature, the correct term for the  
authoritative server that gets its zone entirely from local data,  
rather than from another authoritative server, is "primary master". A  
slave gets its data from one or more master servers, but those master  
servers could themselves be slaves of one or more other masters. There  
is (typically) only one primary master in a normal zone-transfer-based  
replication scheme.

> The answer in this
> 	case is 'NO', unless local anycast or a clever stub resolver is in
> 	use: only one can be first in the list (/etc/resolv.conf or  
> whatever).


But the ordering can be dynamically changed by the stub resolver,  
depending on version.

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