Is it possible for dynamic view change?

[Kevin Darcy]

Li Tongxi wrote:
> Hi, all:   For some reason, I need set a lot of views in my named.conf
> (about 500). And for each view, the zone is up to 15000. I plan to use a
> script to compose the named.conf, and each zone files. As my understanding,
> BIND will consume a lot of memory for such big configuration, since all the
> data will be loaded when BIND startup, and the startup time might be a
> little long. If I want to add/delete/edit a view in named.conf, I need
> restart the BIND server, which may cause a long time. And during this
> period, my DNS server might not be responsive. A worse case is that I need
> change the view in named.conf frequently. So I just want to know, if it's
> possible that once the BIND server startup, I can dynamically change the
> view in the named.conf, just like nsupdate to dynamically change the zone
> file
>   
I don't think it was ever anticipated for anyone to have so many views 
and for them to be so dynamic.

Surely there's a better way to do whatever you're trying to accomplish.

Or, if not, Akamai or one of its competitors might have a better 
solution than BIND's view feature.

                                                                         
                     - Kevin