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- + The Internet Domain Name System (DNS) consists of the syntax to specify the names of entities in the Internet in a hierarchical manner, the rules used for delegating authority over names, and the system implementation that actually maps names to Internet addresses. DNS data is maintained in a group of distributed hierarchical databases.
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Though BIND is a Domain Nameserver, it deals primarily in terms of zones. The primary and secondary declarations in the
named.conf
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Any servers listed in the NS records must be configured as
-authoritative for the zone. A server is authoritative for a zone when it has been configured to answer questions for that zone with authority, which it does by setting the "authoritative answer" (AA) bit in reply brackets. A server may be authoritative for more than one zone. The authoritative data for a zone is composed of all of the Resource Records (RRs)--the data associated with names in a tree-structured name space--attached to all of the nodes from the top node of the zone down to leaf nodes or nodes above
+authoritative for the zone. A server is authoritative for a zone when it has been configured to answer questions for that zone with authority, which it does by setting the "authoritative answer" (AA) bit in reply packets. A server may be authoritative for more than one zone. The authoritative data for a zone is composed of all of the Resource Records (RRs)--the data associated with names in a tree-structured name space--attached to all of the nodes from the top node of the zone down to leaf nodes or nodes above
cuts around the bottom edge of the zone.
-Adding a zone as a type primary or type slave will tell the server to answer questions for the zone authoritatively. If the server is able to load the zone into memory without any errors it will set the AA bit when it replies to queries for the zone. See RFCs 1034 and 1035 for more information about the AA bit.
+Adding a zone as a type master or type slave will tell the server to answer questions for the zone authoritatively. If the server is able to load the zone into memory without any errors it will set the AA bit when it replies to queries for the zone. See RFCs 1034 and 1035 for more information about the AA bit.-A DNS server can be primary for some zones and secondary for others or can be only a primary, or only a secondary, or can serve no zones and just answer queries via its +A DNS server can be master for some zones and slave for others or can be only a master, or only a slave, or can serve no zones and just answer queries via its cache -. Primary servers are often also called -masters - and secondary servers are often also called -slaves -. Both primary/master and secondary/slave servers are authoritative for a zone.
+. Master servers are often also called +primaries + and slave servers are often also called +secondaries +. Both master/primary and slave/secondary servers are authoritative for a zone.
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-There is no prohibition against declaring a server to be a forwarder even though it has primary and/or secondary zones as well; the effect will still be that anything in the local server's cache or zones will be answered, and anything else will be forwarded using the forwarders list.
+There is no prohibition against declaring a server to be a forwarder even though it has master and/or slave zones as well; the effect will still be that anything in the local server's cache or zones will be answered, and anything else will be forwarded using the forwarders list.- - -A - -stealth server is a primary master server that is neither listed in any root zone files nor advertised as being a server. It is set up to hide the true master server for a zone in order to provide some measure of security, or protect the zone from - -Denial of Service ( - -DoS) attacks, or reduce the load on the main server, or any number of other reasons. It is also used to provide some measure of network redundancy. Slave servers load zone data from it.
+A stealth server is a server that answers authoritatively for a zone, but is not listed in that zone's NS records. Stealth servers can be used as a way to centralise distribution of a zone, without having to edit the zone on a remote nameserver. Where the master file for a zone resides on a stealth server in this way, it often referred to as a 'hidden primary' configuration. Stealth servers can also be a way to keep a local copy of a zone for rapid access to the zone's records, even if all 'official' nameservers for the zone are inaccessable.- +
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