On 23 Sep 2013, at 19:24, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote:

> Simon Forster <fors...@spamteq.com> wrote:
>> 
>> As a matter of interest, if one had a DNSBL with 5.5 million entries
>> (i.e. 5.5 million IPs):
>> 
>> 1) What needs to be done to rewrite that to a BIND zone?
>> 2) What sort of machine would be required to load that zone?
>> 3) How long would it take to load into BIND?
> 
> I did a quick test. Generating and parsing the zone in text format took
> about 80s wall time; loading the raw zone file took 30s. In both cases
> named-checkzone used about 1.25GB RAM.

Excellent info. Thank you. What's the specs of the machine you're testing on?

TIA

Simon

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