fatal error: Could not set up local zones

[Ralph Dolmans]

Hi Brian,

Unbound does not have a hard limit for the number of local zones, but
will need memory to store them. The error message you see indicates that
Unbound is not able to allocate enough memory.

Regards,
-- Ralph

On 17-12-18 23:38, Brian Marshall via Unbound-users wrote:
> 
> Hello list,
> 
> I am running unbound 1.66 on OpenBSD and import a couple of
> spam/malware/c&c lists that I blackhole via local zone data in unbound.
> I seem to have run into some kind of limitation on the number of records
> I can load. I get the following error recently when my list reached
> 156550 local-data entries :
> 
>     unbound: [50167:0] error: out of memory adding local data
>     unbound: [50167:0] fatal error: Could not set up local zones
> 
> and the process exits.
> 
> Is there a way to increase the maximum number of local entries that can
> be loaded?
> Thanks!
> 
>    -Brian Marshall
> 
> 
> PS:
> 
> 
> Version 1.6.6
> linked libs: pluggable-libevent 1.4.15-stable (it uses kqueue), LibreSSL
> 2.6.3
> linked modules: dns64 respip validator iterator