I haven't updated my patch - but have realized that one other piece of configuration information that will be needed is the zone type - as in {master, slave, stub}. In my immediate case, this is because a GUI shouldn't offer the opportunity to modify a stub, and a view containing only stub and perhaps built-in zones isn't interesting to (most) humans. I'd appreciate it if this was included in your work. Thanks. --------------------------------------------------------- This communication may not represent my employer's views, if any, on the matters discussed.