Re: Email notifications of name server changes

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 05:57:09PM +1200, Don Stokes wrote:

Joe Abley wrote:

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What does "master name server" mean?

The (Domainz) database does actually distinguish the first name server listed as the "master" Mostly, this distinction doesn't have any real effect. It does however matter when the "public secondary" option is used, as it is this name server that will be used as the master for the secondary to query.

So, the "public secondary" nameserver will only attempt zone transfers from one other server? I'd have thought it would be more general for it to be configured to attempt transfers from all other authoritative servers <shrug>

I imagine this is the source of the confusion.

More than likely. Moving back to the case in hand, however, if you're going to notify nameserver operators when the nameservers start or stop being supposedly authoritative for a zone, you might as well do all of them. Why just notify the operator of the (arbitarily-designated) master nameserver? Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog