To:
Edward Lewis <lewis@tislabs.com>, Gunnar Lindberg <lindberg@cdg.chalmers.se>
Cc:
dnsop@cafax.se
From:
Henk Langeveld - ENS Europe <Henk.Langeveld@Holland.Sun.COM>
Date:
Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:24:41 +0200
In-Reply-To:
<v03130316b39d375a8f06@[207.172.149.31]>; from Edward Lewis on Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:38:39AM -0400
Sender:
owner-dnsop@cafax.se
Subject:
Re: Primary also being secondary
Edward Lewis: > Since the parent's zone file copy of the child's set of servers is glue, > and the child is also local to the server, the parent's set is forgotten. > But you seem to have identified a situation where the protocol is not > fail-safe. I am not convinced that this is something that has to be fixed > - perhaps, perhaps, the occurrances of mismatched parent-child sets is more > commonly erring in favor of the child and perhaps you have witnessed an > unfortunate incident. I believe BIND actually includes a "stub" directive as a hint for a parent that's acting as a secondary for a child. I'm too lazy now to look up the details. Look at the bind doc. Henk