max file size or line count for BIND zone file

[Martin Meadows]

Awesome, thanks!

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:30 AM Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:

> Martin Meadows via bind-users <bind-users at lists.isc.org> wrote:
>
> > Wondering if anyone is aware of a max file size or max number of lines
> that
> > a given BIND zone file can contain?
>
> There isn't a limit as such, so it depends on the capabilities of your
> hardware. I have an old 7.7 million record RPZ zone here which
> named-compilezone on my workstation loads in 32 seconds using 2GB RAM.
> There are much bigger zones out there, e.g. .co.uk is hosted on BIND and
> has roughly 9 million delegations. I won't guess how many records per
> delegation on average :-)
>
> Tony.
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