Fwd: Request to use "Canonical/Mirror"

Tony Finch fanf at isc.org
Tue May 17 14:50:57 UTC 2022


Greg Choules <gregchoules+bindusers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> IMHO the terms "primary" and "secondary" are just as meaningful as the
> terms "master" and "slave", but without the emotional and historical
> baggage.

I think "master" and "slave" is actively misleading, because the DNS
protocol does not allow a master to tell a slave to do anything. (The
closest is NOTIFY which is a hint not a command.)

> You just have to give yourself time to get used to them.

Indeed :-)

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