no. of Views and Zones

Alans alans002 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 8 06:01:27 UTC 2010


On 11/08/2010 12:52 AM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 10/31/2010 9:41 AM, Alans wrote:
>> On 10/31/2010 05:48 PM, Alan Clegg wrote:
>>> On 10/31/2010 4:48 AM, Alans wrote:
>>> Instead of saying "how many views can I get", I think you would be much
>>> better off saying "why am I trying to implement more views".
>> I'm trying to implement something similar to OpenDNS in a smaller scale.
>> i.e. letting each customer to create their own blacklist domains.
>>
>> So I was thinking if I can create a view for each customer and let them
>> edit their zones in a web interface and here my concern is the number of
>> views i can create and number of zones/view.
>
> I'm not sure you quite understand what zones and views are. Why would
> you not simply create a single zone per customer, and eliminate views
> altogether?
>

Well, maybe I'm not, but how to create a zone "per customer"?
Example, customer1 wants to block access to facebook.com while customer2 
wants normal access to facebook.com, how a single view can do that?
And we are talking about thousands of domains here.

Alans



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