DNS with views cannot edit zones after initial setup

|Operating system|Ubuntu Linux 22.04.4|
|Webmin version|2.200|
BIND DNS Server
BIND version 9.18

I was setting up the dns server on this box from scratch. It has two views and so far 6 zones in each view. The problem is that 1 week later when I went back to add more zones, The UI is showing 4 views instead of 2 and half the zone cannot be opened.

Zone xxx.com in view 2 does not exist!

Strangely, if I try again maybe it works and maybe it does not. The views are “Internal” and “External” sometimes the internals ones do not work and sometimes the external ones do not work. If I repeatedly go back and forth between the screen that lists a zone and the zone it will sometimes work.

Reading the URL when the zone page comes up the view # in the url keeps changing. If I try to change the url it instantly returns to the main bind page with the url https://xxxxxxxx:10000/bind8/?xnavigation=1. If I click refresh it also jumps back to the main bind page.

Ok, here is some extra info. For grins I went into named.conf.default-zones and renamed the views with a -df and now it is working fine. The views were created by webmin, I guessed that because two were defined in named.conf.default-zones and 2 in named.conf.local that the plugin was not correctly holding them together.

So additional question, what is the point of separating the zones between default-zones and local zones?

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