Is this KB example backwards? Re: Multiple master servers for the same zones
Fred Morris
m3047 at m3047.net
Thu Sep 7 18:31:20 UTC 2023
Re-reading the KB article referenced below...
On Tue, 5 Sep 2023, Leroy Tennison via bind-users wrote:
>
> [...] I'm assuming i can use
> https://kb.isc.org/docs/managing-manual-multi-master to "demote" one of
> them but is there anything to look for concerning possible
> inconsistencies and how do I check for those issues?
Second paragraph:
In BIND 9, it is relatively simple to switch a server from secondary to
primary in real time: if you store the data in a file, simply redefine
the zone type and change type master; to type slave;.
That seems to me to be saying secondary == master and primary == slave.
There seems to be a mixing of metaphors here. I don't think combining the
traditional and newspeak terminology contributes to clarity. In any case
I'd rewrite this as:
In BIND 9, it is relatively simple to switch a server from primary to
secondary in real time: if you store the data in a file, simply redefine
the zone type and change type primary; to type secondary;.
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Fred Morris
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