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Interesting. I haven't touched BIND for years and am out of the loop, plus memory is fallible anyway. Just looked at it and have ended up at RFC 8499 from Janua
by darrenf 6y ago
Interesting. I haven't touched BIND for years and am out of the loop, plus memory is fallible anyway. Just looked at it and have ended up at RFC 8499 from January 2019: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8499 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8499
Master server: See "Primary server".
Primary server: "Any authoritative server configured to be the
source of zone transfer for one or more [secondary] servers."
(Quoted from [RFC1996], Section 2.1) Or, more specifically,
[RFC2136] calls it "an authoritative server configured to be the
source of AXFR or IXFR data for one or more [secondary] servers".
Primary servers are also discussed in [RFC1034]. Although early
DNS RFCs such as [RFC1996] referred to this as a "master", the
current common usage has shifted to "primary".
So it seems `primary` is essentially the official term in DNS, but `master` may well be the preferred term by BIND itself.