SOA and Primary server ?

[Barry Margolin]

In article <94sfjt$t5a at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Frank Benady <f.benady at french-connexion.com> wrote:
>I have a name registered by NSI.
>The primary server for this name is down (it was the SOA for this
>zone) so I changed the SOA to the secondary server in the db file of
>that name.
>Is that correct ?
>
>Does the primary server has to be SOA ? Can the Secondary server be
>SOA if the primary is down ?

Almost nothing cares about the server listed in the SOA record.  The only
thing that currently uses it is dynamic DNS updates.

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