Re: axfr-clarify supporting unauthorized users

[Mark.Andrews@isc.org]

> Mark.Andrews@isc.org writes:
> > Humans, not software, decide who is and is not a secondary.
> 
> No. The secondaries are defined by software. Humans may decide who they
> _want_ to have as secondaries, but those servers are _not_ secondaries
> until the software on both sides is configured appropriately.
> 
> The paragraph you quoted says ``secondary.'' It does not say ``anyone
> whom the zone owner wants to have as a secondary.''
> 

	No is a secondary.  It may not be able to get the contents
	of the zone but it is a secondary.  It is performing as
	many parts of the protocol as it can as a secondary up until
	it gets a copy of the zone when it can actually start serving
	data.  Those parts of the protocol are to request a AXFR and
	to keep requesting AXFR's until told otherwise.

	Mark

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