From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 20 12:33:36 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54D591065674 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amijaresp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D63F98FC14 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so5487240bwz.3 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:33:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=07TznIZPZ6S2fSQqjAEpi3C6tScENFZub1vBwclvW1M=; b=fRauw4giO66fNaurtZeRLUmLhNDBKvdD9I0PMUoad64AZMoIqADTODPcb8H19gCNGZ UQp0hCkb1D+9XiHjZyGO0xxp3neLlPk5UmLDbZQwotXVeOC5ny1nO23TN14c68nD8IP4 sbJPzlhbaTcfhr1OWQW3aE+0F+uuiFbIcWV8w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LpCnyiT8mMdh/CnRzrOkq3WgCiT835nr6zjNR/4NLj145PqiQebMW04DWMDFe63BPO ns5f/mtwSnX/RIf0lQirg0giwjmwvYnqa9ffu90taImYaE+38nXKOQRTN0eKUs3Rm3D5 UM8wyffqswNafetjS2vUwTFE+zMdRzLEjAmSw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.180.67 with HTTP; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:33:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100420122612.AF005106564A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20100420122612.AF005106564A@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:03:34 -0430 Received: by 10.239.185.70 with SMTP id b6mr583226hbh.58.1271766814511; Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:33:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: Alberto Mijares To: peter@vfemail.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling DNS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 12:33:36 -0000 On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 7:01 AM, wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for= a handful of domain names and a small network. =C2=A0All DNS is now provid= ed by new machines. =C2=A0On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine b= oots, and bind continues to run lots of useless named and named-xfer proces= ses throughout the day. =C2=A0How do I turn off the DNS processes on the ol= d machine and stop it from starting every time the machine boots? Hi, FreeBSD has an excelent documentation. Just reading the manual you will know how to acomplish dummy sysadmin tasks like this. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ Regards Alberto Mijares