max file size or line count for BIND zone file

[Tony Finch]

Martin Meadows via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:

> Wondering if anyone is aware of a max file size or max number of lines that
> a given BIND zone file can contain?

There isn't a limit as such, so it depends on the capabilities of your
hardware. I have an old 7.7 million record RPZ zone here which
named-compilezone on my workstation loads in 32 seconds using 2GB RAM.
There are much bigger zones out there, e.g. .co.uk is hosted on BIND and
has roughly 9 million delegations. I won't guess how many records per
delegation on average :-)

Tony.
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