"number of zones allocated: 64"

[Jeff Neuffer]

Thanks for the info everyone!  

-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Margolin [mailto:barmar at genuity.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 7:21 PM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
Subject: Re: "number of zones allocated: 64"


In article <9j54a3$i61 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Jeff Neuffer <jneuffer at nscom.com> wrote:
>
>I'm not loading that many zones.  That's why I'm asking about it.
Where
>does Bind get this information from?  If I had 64 zones then I could
see
>that.. but I don't.   ??

OK it looks like the zone table size is rounded up.  Our server has 8775
zones in named.conf, and "ndc status" says:

number of zones allocated: 8832

It looks like it grows the table in multiples of 64.

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