Also, I have done some experimenting with BIND 9, and I say with reasonable
confidence there are about 2-5 situations in the world where it needs to be
used.
It's sole reason for existance is to run the .com root zones.
I have large reservations about the way they decided to implements
databasing.
Adam
----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Chuck Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: SLUG Mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] DNS Limitations?
> On Tue, 9 May 2000, Chuck Dale wrote:
>
> > > >Are there any limitations on the number of records for a domain?
> > > >
> > > >ie. Could I set up blah000001.domain.com through to
blah100000.domain.com?
> > > >(100,000 hosts)
> > >
> > > IMHO, there aren't.. I've seen examples of bind configs for setups
like
> > > this, but not as many as 100000 hosts ;)
> >
> > Well it's rather likely there are more than 100,000 hosts on
> > [A-J].root-servers.net, but then they may not run Bind..
> >
> > Would be interesting to know what the root servers run though.
>
> I believe BIND 9 has some upcoming features for "large" zones. I remember
> an SQL interface being one. A zone is a dataset and it's a waste to
> reinvent the wheel. And commercial DB's have been doing the "lets operate
> on f**king huge tables" for a while now. They do it quite well...
>
> oh, here it is -
> http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/plans.html
>
> No word on when version 9 will be released.
>
> bye
>
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