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Date:      Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:40:56 +1000 (EST)
From:      Rowan Crowe <rowan@sensation.net.au>
To:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Failover question/idea/hint
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004181238490.64658-100000@velvet.sensation.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <44305.956004916@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Mon, 17 Apr 2000 sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:

> - The "rest of the world" do not differentiate between master and slave
> name servers - all they do is choose one of the *authoritative* name
> servers. Master and slave(s) are all supposed to be authoritative, of
> course.
> 
> To put it another way: As seen from the outside, there is no difference
> between "primary" and "secondary" name servers!

Right on. With some domain name delegations, the name servers end up being
entered into the parent zone file in alpha order, regardless of
which order you entered them in... so if I specify:

ns4.sensation.net.au primary
ns2.sensation.net.au secondary

It appears in the global DNS as:

	IN	NS	ns2.sensation.net.au.
	IN	NS	ns4.sensation.net.au.

Cheers.


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Rowan Crowe                              http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/
Sensation Internet Services                   http://info.sensation.net.au/
Melbourne, Australia                                 Phone: +61-3-9388-9260



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