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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: BIND
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"Alexei Polkhanov" <usenet@monteaureus.com> writes:

> Some zones can grow up to several millions of records - how you going to
> cope with that ? What about Incremental Zone transfer protocol ?

If you go for the low hanging fruit and write an authoritative-only
name server that can serve zones of medium size, it's not too
difficult.  However, getting all the details correct is another story,
and a full resolver is much more difficult to write.

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