How big is the DNS database being stored at the 13 root servers?
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Thu Apr 7 20:55:13 UTC 2005
[Disclaimer: I do not manage a root name server.]
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:25:34PM +0000,
JW <j5w_ng at att.net> wrote
a message of 11 lines which said:
> How big is entire DNS database?
On disk, less than 60 kilobytes:
% wget --quiet ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/root.zone.gz
% gunzip root.zone.gz
% wc root.zone
2171 6544 57305 root.zone
Probably a little more in BIND's memory.
> 10 terabytes?
You are kidding or you add the data of all DNS servers in the
world. If the DNS is decentralized, it is for a reason.
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