question about authority

[Eivind Olsen]

--On 12. april 2002 10:04 +0200 Kristof Loots <kristof.loots at skynet.be> 
wrote:
> from another name server. The name server is then said to have authority
> for that zone. Name servers can be authoritative for multiple zones,
> too.""
> I don't understand how can a name server be authoritative if the data is
> loaded from another name server?
> Please help me out with this

Oh, that's quite normal. It's what slave servers do all the time - they 
retrieve the zonefile from a master server using AXFR, IXFR or possibly 
even other methods (although AXFR/IXFR are the most common, I have heard of 
people using rsync/rdist to do this as well).

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