How to define views that differ only minimally?

[Alan Clegg]

Marc Haber wrote:
> From what I understand from reading the ARM, I now need to generate
> two views that both include zone statements for all thousands of
> zones, with only the zone statements of the zones that need to differ
> differently. This also means that if a second customer wants a similar
> setup, I need to have the thousands of zones a third time. And I
> assume that each zone file gets actually loaded multiple times, right?

Yes.  You are correct.

> Isn't it possible to have a view B defined as "as view A with the
> following exceptions"?

There is currently no way to do this.  You may want to move these
"special" customers to a server that is configured with views and leave
the majority on a non-view server.

AlanC