$INCLUDE directive

[Barry Finkel]

Blair Copeland wrote:

>I noticed that if I seperate sub-domains into different files and
>use "$INCLUDE" directives, the first dynamic update rewrites my 
>zone as a single flat file.  This seems slightly counter-intuitive.
>If I  took the time to seperate the sub-domains, I kind of wanted to
>keep them apart.  Is there any chance that future enhancements
>might respect the "$INCLUDE" directives and leave them?

When BIND loads a zone into memory, it honors the $INCLUDE statements
by including the requested file.  BIND does not save the $INCLUDE
statements in memory.  When a zone is updated dynamically, the update
takes place in memory, I believe.  Then the zone is re-written to disk
from memory.  All of the formatting that was in the zone on disk is
lost.
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