Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:26:37 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: shawn@megadeth.org (Shawn Ramsey) Cc: ronald@cs.vu.nl, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DNS secondary zone Message-ID: <199908050326.XAA00552@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> In-Reply-To: <003b01bede53$72f08610$f957d8c0@cpl.net> from Shawn Ramsey at "Aug 4, 99 01:29:20 am"
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Shawn Ramsey wrote, > > Hello, > > > > What is the purpose of a secondary DNS? > > Is it just a backup copy of the primary or is it for a subdomain of a > > domain? Or for something totally different? > > Can somebody explain this to me or point me to a document with a good > > description of this? > > A secondary merely pulls it data from a primary name server. A name server > doing "secondary" can be a primary server, it just gets its data from > another server. Secondary servers are usually backup servers, pulling the > data from the primary. They also can serve to distribute the load more effectively. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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