> 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.

humm, that's sort of how it reads in the bind stuff at which I've been looking...

it seems that primary/secondary are whois concepts and a dig against the root server just
returns a list of authoritive servers.

jam