Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:29:20 -0700 From: "Shawn Ramsey" <shawn@megadeth.org> To: "Ronald Klop" <ronald@cs.vu.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DNS secondary zone Message-ID: <003b01bede53$72f08610$f957d8c0@cpl.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908041018420.23886-100000@galjas.cs.vu.nl>
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> 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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