Thanks for valuable feedback. That's exactly what we were looking for. We will be
fixing those issue before final release and adding regression test for those as well. I am
quite sure we already did successful work on speeding the loading of hundred of thousands
of zones and not just tens of thousands.
Ondřej Surý
On 9. 3. 2013, at 3:07, Anand Buddhdev <anandb(a)ripe.net> wrote:
  Hello Knot developers,
 I configured an instance of Knot 1.2.0rc3 with 5174 slave zones, and
 started it. I wanted to see how long it would take to transfer all the
 zones in. It has been running for about an hour, and it still hasn't
 managed to load all the zones from its master. I'll pick just one zone
 as an example to show how long it took:
 # grep 
apnic.net /var/log/knot/knot.log
 2013-03-09T00:50:19.361489-00:00 Will attempt to bootstrap zone
 
apnic.net. from AXFR master in 37s.
 2013-03-09T01:06:31.330875-00:00 Will attempt to bootstrap zone
 
apnic.net. from AXFR master in 35s.
 2013-03-09T01:16:19.741644-00:00 Incoming AXFR transfer of 'apnic.net.'
 with '193.0.0.198@53' key 'ripencc-20110222.': Started.
 2013-03-09T01:16:35.282203-00:00 Will attempt to bootstrap zone
 
apnic.net. from AXFR master in 52s.
 2013-03-09T01:52:16.477212-00:00 Will attempt to bootstrap zone
 
apnic.net. from AXFR master in 37s.
 2013-03-09T01:56:02.806828-00:00 Will attempt to bootstrap zone
 
apnic.net. from AXFR master in 13s.
 2013-03-09T01:57:00.901518-00:00 Incoming AXFR transfer of 'apnic.net.'
 with '193.0.0.198@53' key 'ripencc-20110222.': Started.
 2013-03-09T01:57:01.096493-00:00 Incoming AXFR transfer of 'apnic.net.'
 with '193.0.0.198@53' key 'ripencc-20110222.': Finished.
 From the time Knot decided it needed to bootstrap 
apnic.net, to the time
 it actually transferred the zone in, it took 67 minutes! All that while,
 it was responsing with SERVFAIL for the zone.
 While the zone "apnic.net" has now been loaded, Knot is still busy
 loading many of the other zones. I can't tell how far it is. Perhaps
 there could be a command for knotc, called "zonestatus" which would
 print out a list of all configured zone, and their statuses.
 I understand that transferring in lots of zones takes time. However, if
 I start an instance of BIND with the same slave zones, it can transfer
 them all in within about 15-20 minutes. Knot appears to be much slower
 in comparison.
 Do you have any suggestions for speeding things up?
 Regards,
 Anand
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