From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 20:25:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com [24.2.89.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A8115064 for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 20:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com) Received: (from cjc@localhost) by cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00552; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:26:37 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from cjc) From: "Crist J. Clark" Message-Id: <199908050326.XAA00552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> Subject: Re: DNS secondary zone In-Reply-To: <003b01bede53$72f08610$f957d8c0@cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Aug 4, 99 01:29:20 am" To: shawn@megadeth.org (Shawn Ramsey) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:26:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: ronald@cs.vu.nl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: cjclark@home.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shawn Ramsey wrote, > > Hello, > > > > What is the purpose of a secondary DNS? > > Is it just a backup copy of the primary or is it for a subdomain of a > > domain? Or for something totally different? > > Can somebody explain this to me or point me to a document with a good > > description of this? > > A secondary merely pulls it data from a primary name server. A name server > doing "secondary" can be a primary server, it just gets its data from > another server. Secondary servers are usually backup servers, pulling the > data from the primary. They also can serve to distribute the load more effectively. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message