Or you can call the slave servers 'secondary' servers.
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I concur with this. I'm still fairly new to BIND and DNS myself. I maintain 7
name servers (3 internal, 4 external) and master does signify to me that this
is the server in control of the zone files for the other ones in that pool. The
slaves are pretty much that to me, they take the zone files and apply them
while not having any further control over the zone files themselves. In my
external name servers it also goes paired with authority - slave authorities
that are authoritative to the internet but slaves in that they replicate from
an internal master. This is not something you'd see in real slavery, signifying
that this is mere technical jargon. Is it a heavy term? Yes. Should we support
"black lives matter" and condemn the completely egregious actions committed by
the police officers towards George Floyd? Absolutely, and I hope that the
former officers get convicted for not just manslaughter but murder, and that
more protests will emerge (minus the plundering which was the case here in
Brussels).
However, changing a name and going for censorship of technical jargon which
will only confuse newcomers who will now face duplicate nomenclature changes
NOTHING. George Floyd wouldn't have been able to survive just because we give
things a different name. Instead we'd border closer to censorship which we had
during the wars, and still do in heavily oppressed countries like North Korea,
China etc. It's ironic that what these people are pushing for in practice is
exactly the thing they seemingly seek to eradicate.
There is another relevant case where GitHub will apparently replace master
branches in all their repositories. I'm really glad to be unaffected with my
Gitea server. I may have to adjust my repository mirrors from GitHub however.
For GitHub users, that change will likely break every one of their repositories
that defaults to master and require adjustments from GitHub users of which many
might not even know what branches are. That's the real impact of that and I
find it deeply worrying.
I do not want such a thing to happen to BIND just to please some people with
large followings on Twitter who other than that, often have no affiliation with
the project whatsoever.
On 6/15/20 12:53 AM, Vinícius Ferrão via bind-users wrote:
ISC had a statement about it a time ago:
Caution-https://twitter.com/ISCdotORG/status/942815837299253248 <
Caution-https://twitter.com/ISCdotORG/status/942815837299253248 >
You can now call primary and secondary zones. But the prevalence of
terms are still master and slave. And I really hope this thing of changing
nomenclatures doesn’t go any further due to political correctness.
For the newcomers it’s not OK to break years of terms, software and
documentation just because some people can’t handle terms like master and
slave. Slavery still exists today and making the word disappear will not solve
the issue.
And you’re correct about the BDSM thing. It’s a waste of time, efforts
and lines of code.
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Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards,
Michael De Roover
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