"number of zones allocated: 64"

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Wed Jul 18 23:04:27 UTC 2001


No, BIND 8's named grows the zone table by 64-entry increments (see the
NEWZONES define in src/bin/named/ns_defs.h). Presumably this is so that folks that
are constantly adding and removing zones don't thrash their memory subsystem too
badly.


- Kevin

Barry Margolin wrote:

> 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#
>
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
> Genuity, Burlington, MA
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