Some servers already do Regards
Ben Lavender On Mon, 15 Jun 2020, 19:02 DeCaro, James John (Jim) CIV DISA FE (USA) via bind-users, <bind-users@lists.isc.org> wrote: > Or you can call the slave servers 'secondary' servers. > > > V/R > Jim DeCaro > DISA > Systems Administrator > Windows and Unix Server Operations > FE222/DoDNet Service Section > Defense Enclave Services Directorate > ☎ 301-225-8180 > ☎ 301-375-8180 > james.j.decaro3....@mail.mil > james.j.decaro3....@mail.smil.mil > > "If you always do what you always did you will always get what you always > got." > > > -----Original Message----- > From: bind-users <bind-users-boun...@lists.isc.org> On Behalf Of Michael > De Roover > Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 1:32 PM > To: bind-users@lists.isc.org > Subject: [Non-DoD Source] Re: BIND Masters and slaves > > All active links contained in this email were disabled. Please verify the > identity of the sender, and confirm the authenticity of all links contained > within the message prior to copying and pasting the address to a Web > browser. > > > ________________________________ > > > > > 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. > > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / Best regards, > Michael De Roover > _______________________________________________ > Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to > unsubscribe from this list > > ISC funds the development of this software with paid support > subscriptions. Contact us at https://www.isc.org/contact/ for more > information. > > > bind-users mailing list > bind-users@lists.isc.org > https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >
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