Large amount of zone files

[Barry Margolin]

In article <93neoi$fk3 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jeremy Freeman <jeremyf at netnation.com.nospam> wrote:
>Currently with BIND8 on Linux we have about 46,500 master zone files. When
>we make changes to a particular zone file it is not very convenient to
>reload the enitre database because it takes about 10 minutes. We have a
>patch for bind8 that just updates the database in memory for the zone file
>we modified. Is there a similar patch for BIND9 out there? We want to use
>multi-processor machines for name serving and BIND8 is not smp aware.

Ever since BIND 8.2 you could do "ndc reload <zone name>" to reload just
that one zone.  We don't have BIND 9, but I doubt they would have removed
that feature.

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