GENERATE and memory consumption

[Barry Margolin]

In article <dih6bo$vep$1 at sf1.isc.org>, "C. Weber" <cwf-ml at arcor.de> 
wrote:

> 
> One of the things I looked into because of this
> problem is the $GENERATE directive.
> I have not found any conclusive information on its
> direct memory inpact; from what I've read I infer there
> is none - it just creates those entries when the zone
> file is read.
> 
> Is my assumption correct ?

Yes, it's just a shorthand macro that saves space in the zone file.  
It's stored the same in memory as if you'd written out all the records.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
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