BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB

[Mark Hennessy]

I'm not sure how many resource records are involved, but I'm guessing =
that
the full file would be around 3.2 million lines.

The file that we have is only a partial and that has around 2.9 million
lines.

--
 Mark Hennessy

-----Original Message-----
From: NELSON, ERIC (SBIS) [mailto:en1710 at sbc.com]=20
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:53 AM
To: Mark Hennessy
Subject: RE: BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB

I'd be curious to know how many resource records you have in that zone?

~Eric Nelson

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hennessy [mailto:mhennessy at cloud9.net]=20
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:50 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB


I should have mentioned this before, this BIND is running on FreeBSD =3D
4.10

Others have apparently reported a similar condition to MAPS and their =
=3D
advice
was to move back to BIND 8.  We have over 1GB of RAM in this beast, we
shouldn't need more memory for one 80MB zone. =3D20

Why would others find no problem using BIND 8 with an 80MB zone but have =
=3D
this
problem with BIND 9.2.3?

--
 Mark Hennessy

-----Original Message-----
From: Elzey, Blaine A (Blaine) [mailto:belzey at lucent.com]=3D20
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 9:46 AM
To: Mark Hennessy; bind-users at isc.org
Subject: RE: BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB

To restate the obvious, I would be willing to bet you need more memory, =
=3D
or
need to configure your kernel process limits.

Blaine

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hennessy [mailto:mhennessy at cloud9.net]
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 8:54 AM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: BIND 9.2.3 and zone transfers larger than 64MB


I am using MAPS RBL+ and their zone file has recently (in the past few =
=3D
=3D3D
weeks)
grown to be larger than 64MB.  I have been using BIND 9.2.3 prereleases =
=3D
=3D3D
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 =3D3D
'rbl-plus.mail-abuse.org/IN'
from <mail-abuse.IP>#53: failed while receiving responses: out of memory

My named process also dies every few hours or so.

Is there any recommended course of action to take to fix this that does =
=3D
=3D3D
not
involve going back to BIND 8?

--
 Mark Hennessy