Actually they also contain the glue records ('A' records for the name
servers listed in the NS records).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Jeftovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Colin Viebrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ramy Nabil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Zone File Size
> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Colin Viebrock wrote:
>
> > > But do you mean that they contain the complete zone files for all the
> > .com,.net and .org
> > > domains or the NS records only, and is there any separator between
each
> > successive domains?
> >
> > a) The don't contain the complete zone file for each domain, just the
> > pointers to the authoritative nameservers for that domain. Those
> > nameservers themselves have the complete zone file.
> >
> > b) I highly doubt there is a separator between each domain.
> >
>
> It's just NS records, one per line.
>
> The zone files are LARGE. IIRC about 300 megs compressed for .com, and
> that was last summer.
>
> -mark
>
>
> --
> mark jeftovic
> http://www.easydns.com
> http://mark.jeftovic.net
