Super Master/Slave

•	Super Slaves / Super Masters

Used to automate administration of secondary servers.

When you create a new primary zone on one server (master server), all slave servers (the "Super Slaves" list) will be notified that there is now a new zone available.

When a slave server receives such a notification, it first checks its master list (those listed in "Super Masters") to validate the master, then requests update information and creates the zone (as secondary).

A Simple DNS Plus server can act as both master (primary zones) and slave (secondary zones) at the same time, and can have multiple masters and slaves.

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Bulk refresh / verify zone lists every
Simple DNS Plus retrieves a list of zones and their current serial numbers from the DNS servers in the Super Masters list (above) at this interval.
It uses this list to synchronize both individual zones and the zone list.
If you have a lot of zones (thousands) you may want to enforce long "Refresh" values on secondary zones (see Secondary Zones section) in order to reduce synchronization traffic between the DNS servers.
Even with long "Refresh" values, secondary servers will still get zone updates almost immediately as they happen on the primary server because the primary server will send it a NOTIFY message (make sure to enable "Send NOTIFY..." in the Miscellaneous section on the master).
If you set this (Bulk refresh / verify zone lists every) to a slightly shorter value than the enforced "Refresh" value, the effect is that all secondary zones will be refreshed in a single operation at this interval, and never get around to refreshing individually. This is obviously much more efficient.

NOTE: This functionality (super master/slave) is unique to Simple DNS Plus, and is not currently supported by other DNS server implementation, so both master and slave must be running Simple DNS Plus.

NOTE: In earlier versions of Simple DNS Plus, this feature was called "Master/Slave" (without "Super").
This function has been improved in this version of Simple DNS Plus by way of more efficient synchronization, but the main reason for adding "Super" was that new users often thought that "Master/Slave" was just different terminology for "Primary/Secondary" and therefore didn't realize the full potential of this function.
"Super Master/Slave" is fully compatible with "Master/Slave" in earlier versions.