Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
Your option on balug.org., to be or not be slave at this time. I explained the situation earlier. Notably it's part of migration strategy off of DreamHost.Com. - but we're not there yet (still have to get the dang lists migrated). See the earlier explanation again here (now for the 3rd time ;-)) ... note particularly the bit that starts with "If you'd prefer, for balug.org, could also" ...
OK, thanks.
What I failed to do before was add a note about that to the named.conf.local entry. I've now fixed that omission. Thank you for your indulgence.
(There's been a heck of a lot going on, and I evidently failed to read those couple'a paragraphs in your explanation on Aug. 22nd.)