.. _master-operation:
.. _primary-operation:
-Master operation
-----------------
+Primary operation
+-----------------
When operating as a master, PowerDNS sends out notifications of changes
to slaves, which react to these notifications by querying PowerDNS to
.. _slave-operation:
.. _secondary-operation:
-Slave operation
----------------
+Secondary operation
+-------------------
On launch, PowerDNS requests from all backends a list of domains which
have not been checked recently for changes. This should happen every
- Integer
- Default: 60
-On a master, this is the amount of seconds between the master checking
+On a primary, this is the amount of seconds between the primary checking
the SOA serials in its database to determine to send out NOTIFYs to the
-slaves. On slaves, this is the number of seconds between the slave
+secondaries. On secondaries, this is the number of seconds between the secondary
checking for updates to zones.
.. _setting-xfr-max-received-mbytes: