Given this thread, I propose the following for the draft:
Primary servers and secondary servers --- These are synonyms for "master
server" and "slave server",
which were the terms used in the early DNS RFCs, and defined below. The current
common usage has
shifted to "primary" and "secondary".
Slave server --- An authoritative server which uses zone transfer to retrieve
the zone.
(Quoted from {{RFC1996}}, section 2.1)
{{RFC2182}} describes slave servers in detail.
Master --- Any authoritative server configured to be the source of zone transfer
for one or more slave servers. (Quoted from {{RFC1996}}, section 2.1)
{{RFC2136}} defines "master" as "an authoritative server configured to be the
source of AXFR or IXFR
data for one or more slave servers".
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