On 4/2/15, 17:27, "Andrew Sullivan" <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
>On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 04:26:41PM -0400, Bob Harold wrote: >> I always thought of "primary" and "secondary" as the "old" terms used in >> the BIND 4 manual, with "master" and "slave" as the new terms in the >>BIND 8 >> or 9 manuals. > >I think the thing is you can have multiple masters, but for years >people referred to one of them as the "primary master" i.e. the one >you _actually_ changed before changing everything else. > >I guess that has faded over time. I was going to reply with something snippy on this thread, but then reading STD 13 and RFC 5936 (AXFR) I noted that primary/master/secondary/slave are barely mentioned at all. Hmmmmm. FWIW, I recall once firmly believing it was master and slave, with "slaving a zone" being "a verb." So I am unsure where the terms came from or how "legitimate" they are. They certainly aren't very precise. And as Andrew mentions, I recall "primary master" but also the term being joked about being self-redundant.
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
_______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
