Max slaves limit?

Barry S. Finkel bsfinkel at att.net
Mon Dec 18 14:46:30 UTC 2017


On Sun, 17 Dec 2017 22:06:58 +0530, vijay bommareddy <vijayb888 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm trying to find more information on the practical limitations of adding
> more slaves.
> Can someone tell me, how many number of slaves does BIND technically
> support? Is there a maximum limit per master server?
> 
> Thank you
> Vijay

A minor point - if there are too many slaves, then the NS list might
not fit into a UDP packet, causing TCP to be used.  I do not know
how many NS records would be needed to exceed the UDP packet size;
it would depend upon the length of the nodenames of the DNS servers.

--Barry Finkel


More information about the bind-users mailing list