From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 4 1:29:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [192.216.136.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AFF914D0D for ; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:29:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@megadeth.org) Received: from shawn (shawn.megadeth.org [192.216.87.249]) by luke.cpl.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id BAA00954; Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <003b01bede53$72f08610$f957d8c0@cpl.net> From: "Shawn Ramsey" To: "Ronald Klop" , References: Subject: Re: DNS secondary zone Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:29:20 -0700 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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