On May 13, 2022, at 19.10, Felicia P <feli...@picorealm.net> wrote: > > Hello, I see that ISC updated terminology for BIND9 to use primary/secondary > in addition to the original master/slave which many projects have been > deprecating. > > In the context of BIND9, it seems that 'primary/secondary' is less clear than > master/slave. > > My understanding is that it is possible to have a standalone BIND server that > is running as a 'master' yet acting as a 'secondary' for a particular domain. > In this context, secondary doesn't necessarily refer to the 'slave' status > of the server, but that it is sort of like a backup server in the event that > the primary is unavailable. > > Given this, it seems like instead of 'primary/secondary', a better choice of > terms would be 'canonical/mirror' which unambiguously conveys the roles of > respective servers and does not overlap with other contexts or meanings of > primary/secondary.
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