BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB

[Danny Mayer]

At 08:54 AM 8/27/2004, Mark Hennessy wrote:
>I am using MAPS RBL+ and their zone file has recently (in the past few =
>weeks)
>grown to be larger than 64MB.  I have been using BIND 9.2.3 prereleases =
>and
>have upgraded to 9.2.3 GA recently.
>
>I get the following output in my logs:
>
>Aug 27 08:45:17 <host> named[83125]: transfer of =
>'rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org/IN'
>from <mail-abuse.IP>#53: failed while receiving responses: out of memory

Use IXFR rather than AXFR for this. It uses far fewer resources for this.

Danny

>My named process also dies every few hours or so.
>
>Is there any recommended course of action to take to fix this that does =
>not
>involve going back to BIND 8?
>
>--
>  Mark Hennessy