Use AXFR to fetch records for zones

[Cajga]

Terraform CLI and Provider Versions

$ terraform version
Terraform v1.5.7
on linux_amd64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/dns v3.3.2

Use Cases or Problem Statement

We would like to use terraform to manage our DNS entries both in-house (bind9) and excternally (cloudflare). Internally, we have 4 DNS views for our zone and each has ~500 records. Looking into the code of this provider, it seems, this would mean 4*500 queries to the DNS server each time when we run terraform which seems like a lot.

Maybe this is totally out of scope question but would it be somehow possible to use AXFR to fetch the records in a particular zone instead of doing one by one queries for each records?

Proposal

Ideally, instead of one by one queries, a single AXFR query would be enough to fetch the full zone and be able to compare the configured/records in state to the live records.

How much impact is this issue causing?

Medium

Additional Information

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