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Apple Training Series Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition
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Apple Training Series Mac OS X Server Essentials, Second Edition

by Schoun Regan, David Pugh
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced
544 pages
12h 3m
English
Peachpit Press
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DNS Zones
Zones are the basic organizational unit of the DNS. Zones contain records, and are defined
by how they acquire those records and how they respond to DNS requests. There are three
kinds of zones:
A master zone has the master copy of the zone’s records and provides authoritative
answers to lookup requests.
A slave zone is a copy of a master zone stored on a slave or secondary name server.
Each slave zone keeps a list of masters that it contacts to receive updates to records in
the master zone. Slaves must be configured to request the copy of the master zone’s
data. Slave zones use zone transfers to get copies of the master zone data. Slave name
servers can take lookup requests like master servers. By using several slave zones
linked to one ...
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