Max slaves limit?

[Ben Croswell]

That is a valid consideration but being a slave doesn't always mean being
in the NS records.

On Dec 18, 2017 9:47 AM, "Barry S. Finkel" <bsfinkel at att.net> wrote:

> 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
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