Primary server in SOA (was Re: What does this Mean????)

[Don Stokes]

"Cricket Liu" <cricket at menandmice.com> wrote:
>Don Stokes wrote:
>> Is there anything else that relies on the primary field of the SOA?
>
>NOTIFY.  Name servers sending NOTIFYs won't send them to the
>name server in the MNAME field.

Yeah, I'd run across that with hidden primaries, where one of the
secondaries was listed as the SOA primary.  But that's not a problem if
the SOA primary is not listed in the NS list at all, as in the
"loopback" case.

I can't say I like listing a loopback address as the IP of the MNAME,
but the alternative for a TLD server is attracting squillions of updates
from broken Microsoft clients.  <sigh>

-- don