[Pdns-users] Differences between slave and superslave

[Christian Hofstaedtler]

* Francis Ramírez Verdugo <frankeys2 at hotmail.com> [100914 13:25]:
> 
> Thanks a lot Christian, but I would need a little more explanation:
> 
> What's then the difference 'in concept talking' between a slave name server and a superslave one (apart, obviously, from having a concrete row in its 'supermasters' table)?
> 
> I think my main confusion is related with the utility of 'supermasters' table. Since, we have the 'domains' table where we can put our masters. Why having to do then in another table? Is it maybe a way for making the slave more restricted?

A slave is a nameserver configured for a domain X, and configured with
a master Y.
A superslave is a PowerDNS nameserver configured with a master Z.
This master Z is allowed to push new domains to the superslave.

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christian hofstaedtler