[ On Tuesday, June 10, 2003 at 10:40:41 (-0500), John Maier wrote: ]
> Subject: BIND core dumps on large DNS tables - was Re: BIND and big giant RBL PLUS!!!! table wahoo!
>
> Which brings me to another point, BIND is not able to contend with lists
> list large!
> 
> With databases this large, BIND cores after a period of time.
> It's gotten so bad, that I've had to initiate a cron that checks every min
> to see if named is running, if not start it.
> 
> This is on two different servers, with latest named 8.3.4-REL

BIND-8.4.1 was announced yesterday.  ;-)

> I am beginning to look at alternative DNS programs, the problem is so bad!

I'd recommend taking a look at pkgsrc/nsd (even though I've not yet had
much experience with it).  It is supposedly fully compatible with the
BIND zone file format

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