On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:23:52AM -0000, Graham Turner wrote:
> 
> would anyone care to offer info on what DNS operations actaully use the
> "primary name server" data in a SOA record  - as i understand in strict dns
> parlance this is the MNAME fied in this record.
<snip>
> would anyone offer other applications that would be expected to fail in the
> scenario of misconfigure MNAME data ??/

This is covered regularly here. DDNS clients use the MNAME field value
to send updates to, and by default BIND masters/slaves don't send NOTIFY
messages to hosts in the MNAME field.

> perhaps zone transfer ??...

No.
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