How many nameservers?

bsfinkel at anl.gov bsfinkel at anl.gov
Mon Feb 2 20:25:35 UTC 2009


On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM, shulkae <shulkae at gmail.com> wrote:

>> How may NS entries typically is allowed per zone? Is there a bind
>> limit or does it cause any side effects if the
>> slaves are geographically distributed ?
>>
>> We would like to setup one zone for my new group who have offices all
>> over the world ? We are planning
>> to use BIND 9 over FreeBSD. There may be few SUN/Solaris hosts as
>> well.
>>
>> We would like to start with around 16 Slaves per master per zone. Is
>> this too much? My tests did not reveal any side effect fortunately.
>>
>> Anyone with experience of setting up DNS slaves all around the globe
>> please advise..


and Ben Croswell <ben.croswell at gmail.com> replied:

>I have never heard of there being any downside to a large number of NS
>records for a domain.
>I know internally to my company we have large numbers of NS records for the
>internal domains.


One downside - if you have many NS records, then they might not all
fit in one UDP packet (the Authority and/or Addition sections of a
response to a DNS query).  This will cause the protocol to revert
to TCP.
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