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What Spotify calls a "stealth primary" has typically been referred to as a "hidden master" for 15 years or so. Googling that term will turn up more relevant re
by jlgaddis 10y ago
What Spotify calls a "stealth primary" has typically been referred to as a "hidden master" for 15 years or so. Googling that term will turn up more relevant results, for anyone looking to do something similar.
- tacon 10y agoWhen I was setting mine up, the term I saw was "unpublished primary". I did it because there were few free primary DNS services back then, but several free secondary services. So I just "forgot" to publish my primary...
- inopinatus 10y agoTo be clear, a strict implementation of your DNS means that this host appears in the MNAME field of your SOA record. Not so stealthy or hidden, despite the moniker. You might ask "who on earth looks at the MNAME field of SOA records", I answer "well I do". However there is no requirement that the MNAME host be willing to answer queries. There is an expectation that the host in the MNAME field accepts dynamic DNS updates, if one is using RFC2136-style dynamic DNS, although I didn't get the sense Spotify were doing so.