Primary/Secondary

[Mark Elkins]

I attended my first DNS Training course presented by Bill Manning at 
ICANN Rio de Janeiro March 2003.
In December 2004, ICANN came to Cape Town - and Johan Ihrén (now 
Stenstam) and Bill Manning taught DNS together.

Anyway, we (UniForum S.A. - now ZARC) started presenting DNS Training in 
South Africa in 2006 to local ISPs. We were the folk that managed the 
CO.ZA registry and people were saying we didn't know how to do DNS - so 
what better than to have international folk that taught the subject!

Since about 2008, I have been partnering Johan in DNS Training - 
primarily in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
The two courses are now "Intro DNS" and "Advanced DNS (including DNSSEC)".
Initially, I guess, we used the old terms - but that quickly changed to 
Primary and Secondary. The old terms used to occasionally catch me out 
at times, especially in my own configurations... and all this happened 
in South Africa!
The "old terms" are now somewhat forgotten.

On 2025/02/09 12:45, Carsten Strotmann via bind-users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 9 Feb 2025, at 7:35, Michael De Roover wrote:
>
>> I for
>> one look forward to seeing what people from various parts of the world have to say about
>> it.
> I've been teaching DNS for over 30 years now, and I have always been uneasy using the old terms. I've used to "dance around" them, mentioning them once and using different terms all along in the training. That was not good for the students, it was confusing.
>
> I was glad when RFC 8499 (and https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-knodel-terminology ) came along. It solved a big problem for me personally, and I do not want go back using the old terms.
>
> (for context: I'm from Germany)
>
> Greetings
>
> Carsten Strotmann
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Mark James ELKINS  -  Posix Systems - (South) Africa
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