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Date:      Wed, 4 Aug 1999 01:29:20 -0700
From:      "Shawn Ramsey" <shawn@megadeth.org>
To:        "Ronald Klop" <ronald@cs.vu.nl>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: DNS secondary zone
Message-ID:  <003b01bede53$72f08610$f957d8c0@cpl.net>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908041018420.23886-100000@galjas.cs.vu.nl>

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> 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.






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