[RT#45306] RNDC & Views

It would be useful if rndc treated views as first-class objects.

Its command syntax has the [view] last, so while several commands act

on "all" when no target is specified, you can't say "all in this view".

There are a number of cases where one would like to do things to

all zones in a view.

The immediate example is this:

rndc freeze/thaw have the syntax:

freeze [zone [class [view]]]

thaw [zone [class [view]]]

I'm in the unfortunate situation of having to do a bulk renumbering of a view that contains a lot (well, for me) of zones..., and I need to do an atomic update, while not freezing other views.

For the next round, it would be useful to have something like: rndc freeze -view internal # Freeze all zones in the "internal" view ... rndc thaw -view internal

Other cases where a view as a whole seems to be a sensible target: rndc flush rndc notify rndc refresh rndc reload rndc retransfer rndc sync

Thanks.

-- Timothe Litt ACM Distinguished Engineer

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