Please help

John Hildreth partsman at slutpuppy.org
Sun Feb 4 02:46:40 UTC 2001


I have looked all over the internet and have been unsuccessful at finding
out a ofew facts.


Is there a size or record number limit for zone files?
(I would need to know if arpa and domain files differ in those limits as
well)
What is the byte size limit of a single record?
I know hyphens are allowed, and I am forced to use them to keep from
creating subdomains within my bind configuration (limitation of
provisioning system I am forced to use.)

I have a zone file, db.cvx.algx.net
with about 40,000 records in it. ALOT (close to 80%) of those records are
failing the
forward lookups, but reverses work fine.
(all the reverse info matches the forward exactly)

heres a snippit of my forward zone file:
Ill leave out the SOA, as it is fine, and identical to every other domain
I host:

66-2-79-180-oc-05       IN      A       66.2.79.180
66-2-79-235-oc-05       IN      A       66.2.79.235
66-2-79-154-oc-05       IN      A       66.2.79.154
66-2-79-190-oc-05       IN      A       66.2.79.190
66-2-79-245-oc-05       IN      A       66.2.79.245
which _should_ return
66-2-79-180-oc-05.cvx.algx.net
66-2-79-235-oc-05.cvx.algx.net
66-2-79-154-oc-05.cvx.algx.net
66-2-79-190-oc-05.cvx.algx.net
66-2-79-245-oc-05.cvx.algx.net
for both name and IP resolution.

The largest name in the cvx.algx.net subdomain would be along the lines of
111-222-333-444-ab-11.cvx.algx.net # all hosts are named with the ip
octects seperated by a dash, city where the host is located (two letter
codes are used) and nth host at the location. Meaning only an IP with
3numbers in each octet would be the longest record, since all other
"fields" are static.

Please help,
and Thank you in advance:wq


John Hildreth
MMPS Engineer
Allegiance Telecom

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