From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Apr 17 19:41: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from velvet.sensation.net.au (serial1-2-velvet-brunswick.sensation.net.au [203.20.114.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B4B37BA41 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 2000 19:40:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) Received: from localhost (rowan@localhost) by velvet.sensation.net.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA80133 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:40:57 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from rowan@sensation.net.au) X-Authentication-Warning: velvet.sensation.net.au: rowan owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:40:56 +1000 (EST) From: Rowan Crowe To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failover question/idea/hint In-Reply-To: <44305.956004916@verdi.nethelp.no> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. -- Rowan Crowe http://www.rowan.sensation.net.au/ Sensation Internet Services http://info.sensation.net.au/ Melbourne, Australia Phone: +61-3-9388-9260 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message