docs: recommend TransactionLimiter for bounding untrusted zone input - #1281
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Added a warning about handling untrusted input when building zones, including a code example for using TransactionLimiter.
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Documentation-only follow-up to the
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doc/zone-make.rst:dns.zone.from_text/from_fileapply every record as a transaction change with no default limit, so untrusted input (e.g. a large$GENERATErange or an oversized zone) can exhaust memory/CPU. Passing adns.transaction.TransactionLimiterastransaction_setupbounds this, raisingdns.transaction.TooManyChanges; the default stays unlimited for backwards compatibility.No code changes; the example uses the API as it exists on the
limitingbranch. Happy to also add a shortSECURITY.mdnote and/or API-reference entries forTransactionLimiter/TooManyChangesif you'd like.