primary name server (mname) field data

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0000, Graham Turner wrote:
> > 
> > would anyone care to offer info on what DNS operations actaully use the
> > "primary name server" data in a SOA record  - as i understand in strict dns
> > parlance this is the MNAME fied in this record.
> <snip>
> > would anyone offer other applications that would be expected to fail in the
> > scenario of misconfigure MNAME data ??/
> 
> This is covered regularly here. DDNS clients use the MNAME field value
> to send updates to, and by default BIND masters/slaves don't send NOTIFY
> messages to hosts in the MNAME field.

	Well anyone that implements NOTIFY shouldn't be sending to a
	NS that is the same as the MNAME.
 
> > perhaps zone transfer ??...
> 
> No.
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