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Subject:    =?iso-8859-2?Q?Re=3A_DNS_server_r=F4les?=
From:       Pavel Kankovsky <peak () argo ! troja ! mff ! cuni ! cz>
Date:       2001-08-22 7:25:50
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:

> PK> The master/slave relationship is a side effect of any 
> PK> replication mechanism including both AXFR and rsync.
> 
> Untrue.  Read the final paragraph of
> <URL:http://homepages.tesco.net./~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/dns-database-replication.html>.

True. Any *replication* implies the existence of a master--a party
propagating changes to other, and a slave or slave--parties receiving
changes from the master. In the case of MS DNS "multi-master replication",
the relation is not fixed but created ad hoc for every individual change.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."

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