Slaves, Secondary, Primary, Master Autoritative?

[BadBoo]

Barry,

Thanks. That was a great answer.
Bruce

In article <hRrI4.43$lD5.1445 at burlma1-snr2>,
  Barry Margolin <barmar at genuity.net> wrote:
> In article <8ct16a$8lt$1 at news.rocsoft.net>,
> Bruce D. Meyer <chipsumm at rocsoft.net> wrote:
> >I think I am confused, but am not certain. (Dang, that's confused)
> >
> >What makes a name server authoritative?
>
> On a master server, loading the zone into memory and not detecting any
> syntax errors.
>
> On a slave server, loading the zone into memory, not detecting any
syntax
> errors, and the zone not having expired due to too many failures
trying to
> refresh from the master.
>
> >Is a slave the same as a secondary server?
>
> Yes.
>
> >Is a Master the same as a Primary server?
>
> Yes.
>
> >Can a Slave or Secondary be authoritative?
>
> They should be.
>
> >Is putting your two names servers in Internic as your primary and
secondary
> >cause them to both be authoritative?
>
> No.  It tells everyone else that they're supposed to be authoritative.
>
> >I have this setup:
> >
> >ns.rocsoft.net as primary
> >www2.rocsoft.net as secondary.
> >
> >www2 get's it's zone files via zone transfer each time serial
numbers are
> >updated.  Doesn't that mean that www2 is a salve or secondary server?
>
> Yes.
>
> >For some odd reason, when I let www2 run (It is off right now) ALL
my dns
> >queries seem to be answered by that machine, even though
ns.rocsoft.net is
> >my primary (Or so I thought) server.
>
> No one else knows or cares which servers are primary or secondary,
that's
> only the concern of the administrators.  Other servers send their
queries
> to whichever server has the best response time record.  If www2 is
much
> faster than ns, it will get most queries.
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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