Re: Zone File Size

From: Mark Jeftovic (markjr@easydns.com)
Date: Mon Apr 23 2001 - 13:54:53 EDT


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

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