On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM, shulkae <shul...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 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 few SUN/Solaris hosts as >> well. >> >> We would like to start with around 16 Slaves per master per zone. Is >> this too much? My tests did not reveal any side effect fortunately. >> >> Anyone with experience of setting up DNS slaves all around the globe >> please advise..
and Ben Croswell <ben.crosw...@gmail.com> replied: >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. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Barry S. Finkel Computing and Information Systems Division Argonne National Laboratory Phone: +1 (630) 252-7277 9700 South Cass Avenue Facsimile:+1 (630) 252-4601 Building 222, Room D209 Internet: bsfin...@anl.gov Argonne, IL 60439-4828 IBMMAIL: I1004994 _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
