Size limit for a zone file?

Mark.Andrews at iengines.com Mark.Andrews at iengines.com
Tue Jan 4 01:31:13 UTC 2000


> We're using:
> VERSION.BIND    text = "8.2.2-P3"

	I would upgrade see the following for why:
	http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security-19991108.html
> 
> My question is this...Is there a limit to the
> number of entries a zone file can hold?  We are
> setting up a service that once a user joins a
> CNAME record gets created for <user>.domain.com
> We currently have > 4,000 users and expect to
> eventually have >1,000,000.
> I've looked through the BIND documenatation and
> didn't see a limit (but I'm sure I overlooked a
> lot)

	There is no limit apart from memory use and exausting the name
	space.

	Mark
> 
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