How to allow over 65536 zones in bind 8.1.2

[Barry Margolin]

   Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 19:22:21 -0500
   From: Kevin Darcy <kcd at daimlerchrysler.com>

   Barry Margolin wrote:

   > In article <199911051927.OAA07556 at fw1-a.osis.gov>,
   > Joseph S D Yao  <jsdy at cospo.osis.gov> wrote:
   > >My knee-jerk reaction is that > 64K zones is a management problem
   > >anyway!
   >
   > We have about 30,000 zones on our servers.  Lots of zones for an ordinary
   > company is unusual, but for a Tier-1 ISP this is business as usual.

   But, at a certain point, wouldn't you start spreading the zones over more servers,
   for performance reasons, if nothing else? I just get the feeling that raising the
   zone limit is simply going to permit more clueless admins to dig themselves into
   deeper holes, and then this list will be flooded with "Why does my named take so
   long to reload?" posts...

Actually, we're in the process of consolidating from about 8 servers to 4
(one hidden primary/secondary and 3 published servers -- see the thread
about GTE Internetworking submitting lots of domain modifications to NSI).
When they get overloaded we'll add more, but for now we'll just keep adding
memory to the ones we have.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at bbnplanet.com
GTE Internetworking, Powered by BBN, Burlington, MA