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- From: trier@slc6.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
- Subject: Re: multiple phase2 zones on a network
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 15:49:04 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- Message-ID: <1dra1gINNdv8@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- References: <10NOV199211222486@comb1.comb.umd.edu> <1dp2m2INNhna@alshain.usc.edu> <1992Nov10.212317.22514@novell.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: slc6.ins.cwru.edu
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- In article <1992Nov10.212317.22514@novell.com> cranch@novell.com (Christopher Ranch) writes:
- > Once a router (any router) has been seeded by _any_ means,
- > to too becomes a seed router.
-
- You know, I've always wished someone would distinguish between authoritative
- and non-authoritative zone lists. A seed router would have an authoritative
- zone list, and a non-seed router would be non-authoritative.
-
- Granted, this can't be done today without modifying the protocols, but it is
- sorely needed. There really ought to be a clean way to do a gradual reload
- of routers on a network.
-
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- Stephen Trier
- Network Services Engineering, IRIS/INS/Telecom
- Case Western Reserve University
- trier@ins.cwru.edu
-