On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 8:28 PM, <internet-dra...@ietf.org> wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations Working > Group of the IETF. > > Title : DNS Terminology > Authors : Paul Hoffman > Andrew Sullivan > Kazunori Fujiwara > Filename : draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-00.txt > Pages : 20 > Date : 2015-04-14 > > Abstract: > The DNS is defined in literally dozens of different RFCs. The > terminology used in by implementers and developers of DNS protocols, > and by operators of DNS systems, has sometimes changed in the decades > since the DNS was first defined. This document gives current > definitions for many of the terms used in the DNS in a single > document. > > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology/ > > There's also a htmlized version available at: > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-00 > > A few concerns:
Stealth server -- This is the same as a slave server except that it is not listed in an NS resource record for the zone. (Quoted from [RFC1996], section 2.1) A stealth server is often actually a master for zone transfers, and in that case is called a "hidden master". A Stealth server is often a primary master, which I believe is *not* "the same as a slave server", but rather a separate case. A Stealth server can be master or slave. -- By the way -- the document says that "master/slave" are the old terms and we should be using "primary/secondary" - or does that not apply to some uses? In-bailiwick - 1. An adjective to describe a name server the name of which is either subordinate to or (rarely) the same as the zone origin. In-bailiwick name servers require glue in their parent zone. 2. Data for which the server is either authoritative, or else authoritative for an ancestor of the owner name. This sense of the term normally is used when discussing the relevancy of glue records in a response. For example, the server for the parent zone example.com might reply with glue records for ns.child.example.com. Because the child.example.com zone is a descendant of the example.com zone, both glue records are in-bailiwick. In the last sentence "both" seems out of place, I think "the" would be better. -- Bob Harold
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