Bug ID 468797: After roll-fwd upgrade, very large DNSX zone fails initial AXFR, zone never loaded

Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP Install/Upgrade, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3

Opened: Jun 24, 2014

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If you have several very large DNSX zones (tens of thousands of records/hundreds of mb each), one of them may fail to be fully loaded on startup after a roll-fwd upgrade. So DNSX cannot answer for records in that zone.

Impact

DNSX cannot answer for the zone.

Conditions

Several very large DNSX zones loaded.

Workaround

Simply disable and re-enable the zone.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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