How many nameservers?

2009-02-02 Thread shulkae
How may NS entries typically is allowed per zone? Is there a bind limit or does it cause any side effects if the slaves are geographically distributed ? We would like to setup one zone for my new group who have offices all over the world ? We are planning to use BIND 9 over FreeBSD. There may be

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-02 Thread Ben Croswell
I have never heard of there being any downside to a large number of NS records for a domain. I know internally to my company we have large numbers of NS records for the internal domains. -- -Ben Croswell On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM, shulkae shul...@gmail.com wrote: How may NS entries

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 04:51:52PM -0800, shulkae shul...@gmail.com wrote a message of 17 lines which said: How may NS entries typically is allowed per zone? The protocol has no limit. But you may run into problems with old software which still limits the DNS packets to 512 bytes. See all

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 02:25:35PM -0600, bsfin...@anl.gov bsfin...@anl.gov wrote a message of 41 lines which said: One downside - if you have many NS records, then they might not all fit in one UDP packet Let me demonstrate a bit of pedantism: the correct sentence is rather they might not

Re: How many nameservers?

2009-02-02 Thread Barry Margolin
In article gm7ksm$198...@sf1.isc.org, bsfin...@anl.gov wrote: One downside - if you have many NS records, then they might not all fit in one UDP packet (the Authority and/or Addition sections of a response to a DNS query). This will cause the protocol to revert to TCP. Truncation isn't