multiple slave zones pointing to same file?

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>>> IME the best way to do this on a Unix'y system is to use hard links.
>>> That way if you ever need to change one of them to be its own file
>>> it's trivial to do so. Also IME, BIND doesn't react well to having
>>> multiple slave zones sharing the same file, but that may have improved
>>> in more recent versions, I haven't tried it for a couple of years now.
>>
>> Thanks Doug, but I'm not entirely clear on what you're recommending? It
>> seems like you're saying it's OK, but then you're saying BIND doesn't
>> like it?
> 
> I'm guessing then that you're not running BIND on a Unix system. In any 
> case, Mark is in a much better position than I to state categorically, 
> "Don't do that" so I am happy to defer to his wisdom.
> 
> Just use different files for each zone. Yes, it's a bit of duplication 
> on the file system, but that's not the end of the world. Disk is cheap, 
> DNS failure i

Thanks Doug/Mark...I ended up just doing it the "right" way ;)