maintaining record consistency in two views

[Mark Andrews]

> I am attracted to the view feature for our internal and external network but
> find it is not convenient to maintain two zone (in two separate views
> though) for a lot of command records. I was advised to use sortlist feature
> instead for the same purpose but that reveal the association between our
> internal and external network.
> 
> I am wondering how I can make a request for failover feature for view. Let
> me elaborate this a bit
> 
> say view X and Y, both having abc.com zone, serving internal and external
> network separately. The current RFC requires that you have to maintain
> abc.com zone in view X and Y seperately. So if you have a common entry like
> www.abcd.com, you have maintain the same record in two places. I am
> wondering if I can just define it in one view, say Y, and any query against
> X will fail over to view Y since in X there is no www.abcd.com record.
> 
> I understand this is against current RFC but how can I make a request like
> this since this is totally reasonable.
> 
> Anyone has comment?
> 
> Thanks

	There is no RFC that covers this.  This is all implementation
	specific extensions.  There is no failover to another view.

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Mark Andrews, ISC
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