ZONE file
Stephane Bortzmeyer
bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Fri May 13 08:20:18 UTC 2005
On Thu, May 12, 2005 at 01:38:05PM +0200,
Mokwena Motseto <Mokwena.Motseto at postoffice.co.za> wrote
a message of 184 lines which said:
> Our zone file is too big,
What is its actual size? ("Too big" is no engineer's speaking).
> and it becomes very difficult to manage it,
Do you mean you edit it by hand (because BIND itself has no trouble
handling humongous zone files)? If so, I suggest you switch to a
better tool to handle it (small zones can be edited by hand but if you
have, say, 10,000 hosts, you certainly have a good use case to create
or deploy a tool to manage them).
> there a way I can separate it into small files, maybe one with A
> records and another with CNAME and so on
This is certainly possible, either via BIND's $INCLUDE or via a
pre-processor.
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