"number of zones allocated: 64"

[Barry Margolin]

In article <9j4v54$g32 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jeff Neuffer <jneuffer at nscom.com> wrote:
>I was wondering what the statement, "number of zones allocated: 64"
>means.  Does this mean that the server will only support loading this
>many?  I looked for documentation on this, but have not found any yet.

It's the number of zones that the server has actually loaded; i.e. there
should be 64 "zone" statements in your named.conf file.  There's no
hard-coded limit to the number of zones that BIND can load.

>host# ndc status
>named 8.2.3-REL Wed Apr 18 13:46:32 EDT 2001
>:/usr/ports/net/bind8/work/src/bin/named
>config (/etc/namedb/named.conf) last loaded at age: Wed Jul 18 08:58:01
>2001 
>number of zones allocated: 64
>debug level: 0
>xfers running: 0
>xfers deferred: 0
>soa queries in progress: 0
>query logging is ON
>server is up and running
>host# 

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