On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, John Maier wrote:

> I know I get retrieve the list of DNS via:
> > dig -t T_NS <domainname>
> or
> > nslookup -q=NS <domainname>
>
> How do you determine what is primary and what is secondary?

I don't believe that you can find that out. (And when I query my different
name servers they all provide the same details.)

Note that some DNS servers don't even have the concept of "primary" (or
master) and "secondary" (or slave). (For example, rsync or other tools
could be used to transfer the zone data.)

The only thing that is important is if it is authoritative.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://www.reedmedia.net/