Large amount of zone files

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Freeman <jeremyf at netnation.com> writes:

    Jeremy> Currently with BIND8 on Linux we have about 46,500 master
    Jeremy> zone files. When we make changes to a particular zone file
    Jeremy> it is not very convenient to reload the enitre database
    Jeremy> because it takes about 10 minutes. We have a patch for
    Jeremy> bind8 that just updates the database in memory for the
    Jeremy> zone file we modified.

ndc reload zone-name does this already in BIND8.

    Jeremy> Is there a similar patch for BIND9 out there?

rndc reload zone-name does this in the current 9.1 beta.

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