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From: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>
To: Swee-Chuan Khoo <sckhoo@asiapac.net>
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Subject: Re: bind 8.1.x
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On Fri, 28 Aug 1998, Swee-Chuan Khoo wrote:
> how about the limit in the source code, maybe like limit of 16bit
> or 65535 entries?

I'm pretty sure that the root servers run bind 8, Vixie's certainly
does.  So they can handle the entire com + edu + net zones.
That's quite a few more than 65k entries. :)

Dan
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