Primary/Secondary (Was: Master/Slave)

[Paul Kosinski]

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 09:11:32 +0100
Ondřej Surý <ondrej at isc.org> wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> since you've asked about ISC recommendations and good practice,
> we prefer to use the current DNS terminology as defined in RFC 8499[1]
> that says:
> 
> > Although early DNS RFCs such as [RFC1996] referred to this as a "master",
> > the current common usage has shifted to "primary".  


I looked up RFC8499 and found that although the definitions of Master and Slave appear (only) as references to Primary and Secondary, the old terms still are used extensively in the bodies of the definitions. (Not to mention that it would be rather confusing to have "Primary master" defined as a reference to "Primary primary".)