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"Johan" == =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Johan Ihr=E9n?= <ISO-8859-1> writes:

Johan> i.e. that way you compromise synchronicity (is Johan> there such a word?) There is. It means to agree in time or to have the property of agreeing in time. The extract from Wikipedia is appropriate: For the album by The Police see Synchronicity. Synchronicity is a term that was used by the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung to describe the alignment of universal forces with one's own life experience. Jung believed that some (if not all) coincidences were not mere chance, but instead a literal "co-inciding", or alignment of forces in the universe to create an event or circumstance. For most of the people here, I suppose their life experiences are aligned with the universal, not mere chance forces of consistent DNS data. :-) Johan> PS. I choose the word synchronicity rather than coherence, Johan> because as long as each slave publish exactly the same data Johan> for the same SOA serial they are technically coherent (to Johan> the version of the data they *have*) although they may be Johan> temporarily out of sync (with slaves having acquiered more Johan> recent data). Hmmm. Your suggestion of synchronicity works given the definition above. However I would have called that coherence: two or more servers publishing identical data for a given SOA serial. The name servers would be consistent if they all had the same data and SOA serial. But consistency usually has another meaning in the DNS: the same query always gets the same answer no matter where the query is made from. So perhaps strict consistency could mean when all authoritative servers have identical data for some zone. It doesn't really matter what terminology we use. Just as long as we agree on its meaning. "When I use a word, it means what I want it to mean." The quote's from Alice in Wonderland I think.