question about authority

[phn at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Kristof Loots <kristof.loots at skynet.be> wrote:
> Hi,

> I've found this in O'Reilly's "DNS and BIND"

> ""Name servers generally have complete information about some part of the
> domain name space, called a zone, which they load from a file on disk or
> 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?

slave servers are as authoritative as master servers. And they 
certenly load their data from another server.

> Please help me out with this

> Thx

> Kristofl




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