RFC 2182:Selection and Operation of Secondary DNS ...
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DNS zone


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... A number of problems in DNS operations today are attributable to poor choices of secondary servers for DNS zones. The geographic placement as well as the diversity of network connectivity exhibited by the set ...


... A server that knows the content of a DNS zone from local knowledge, and thus can answer queries ...



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