Is there a maximum number of DNS entries that Windows 2000 server can handle?

[Aaron Harmston]

Does anyone know if there is a maximum number of DNS
entries (internal) that a Windows 2000 server can handle?
And if so what that number is? Thanks!

 

[Tim Rains [MSFT]]

Hi Aaron. Thank-you for your post.

They do have some performance and planning information available in the
Windows 2000 DNS white paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/communications/name
adrmgmt/w2kdns.asp

One limitation to be aware of is documented in this article:

267855 Problems with Many Domain Controllers with Active Directory
Integrated
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=267855

Other than that I haven't seen any documented limits.

I hope that helps.

Tim Rains
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

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[Ace Fekay [MVP]]

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Hi Aaron. Thank-you for your post.

They do have some performance and planning information available in
the Windows 2000 DNS white paper:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techinfo/howitworks/communications/name
adrmgmt/w2kdns.asp

One limitation to be aware of is documented in this article:

267855 Problems with Many Domain Controllers with Active Directory
Integrated
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=267855

Other than that I haven't seen any documented limits.

I hope that helps.

Tim Rains
Product Support Services
Microsoft Corporation

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.

I remember some guy more than a year ago in a post saying he had over 20,000
entries with no problems.... I think he was running W2k DNS servers in a
university somewhere...

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Regards,
Ace

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Ace Fekay, MCSE 2000, MCSE+I, MCSA, MCT, MVP
Microsoft Windows MVP - Active Directory