<div dir="ltr">Hi E R.<div>My short answer would be, don't configure views unless you have a good use case for them. For example you are running resolvers that have two different kinds of clients that need to be handled differently - one client set needs RPZ, the other doesn't. Or something like that.</div><div><br></div><div>BIND has views inside anyway. If you run "rndc stats" it produces a file called "named.stats", in which you will see line like this:</div><div>[View: _bind]<br></div><div>[View: default]<br></div><div>The "_bind" view is always there and is used for internal processing. The "default" exists for all client processing and if you define your own views it disappears. So having one user-defined view is functionally equivalent to having no views.</div><div><br></div><div>One possible reason I can think of for defining a view would be if you know you will need to add more views in future, so would like to standardise the structure of your config day one. It's a bit like configuring an Ethernet switch: do I configure VLANs even though (today) it's one flat network?</div><div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.<br>Greg</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 4 Jan 2023 at 01:15, E R <<a href="mailto:fasteddieinaustin@gmail.com">fasteddieinaustin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">New to BIND and just starting to read the 5th edition from O'Reilly after watching some videos online while it made its way to me. I am trying to understand why the view statement appears to be included by default in most Linux distributions if best practice says you should have separate servers for each? Based on the comments in the named.conf sample file I am inclined to remove all of the view statements so it operates in "default view" on new servers I am setting up to replace old ones. Is the view statement just there for those who need to ignore best practices or am I missing something?</div>
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