What is the difference between Master/Slave and Primary/Secondary?
Good question! Most people equate Master with Primary and Secondary with Slave. In reality, the two are not quite the same. Primary name servers are the default name server (the first server that will be queried) based on how you have configured your domain’s NS records with your registrar. Secondary name servers are the backup if the primary name server fails. Master and slaves refer to a management arrangement used within DNS servers to propagate information changes from one server to another. Masters are the holders of the authoritative information, who in turn arrange to pass this information off to slaves. Often a Master server is the Primary, and slave servers are the secondary, but this need not be the case! When you configure a master zone with us, all of our name servers will operate as a master name server. If you configure a slave zone with us, all of our name servers will act as a slave to your specified master name server.
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