Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:06:25 +0200 From: Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu> To: peter@vfemail.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling DNS Message-ID: <4BCDB4E1.5010202@eskk.nu> In-Reply-To: <20100420135751.A236B106572D@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20100420122612.AF005106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <hqk7dv$45s$1@dough.gmane.org> <20100420135751.A236B106572D@hub.freebsd.org>
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On 2010-04-20 15:41, peter@vfemail.net wrote: > > I can change named_enable="YES" to named_enable="NO" in the /etc/rc.conf file. Should I delete the following line from the /etc/rc.conf file that says: > > named_flags="-u bind -g bind" > > or is it fine to leave it? > > ------- > > At 08:43 AM 4/20/2010, Michael Powell wrote: >> peter@vfemail.net wrote: >> >>> >>> I have a FreeBSD server that, among other things, used to provide DNS for >>> a handful of domain names and a small network. All DNS is now provided by >>> new machines. On the old machine, DNS starts when the machine boots, and >>> bind continues to run lots of useless named and named-xfer processes >>> throughout the day. How do I turn off the DNS processes on the old >>> machine and stop it from starting every time the machine boots? >>> >> >> Look for named_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and change the "YES" to "NO". >> This is for the standard built-in Bind. If some other way to start has been >> scripted manually, in say /etc/rc.local you'll need to look there. The third >> possibility is if some add on version from ports has been installed the >> start up script location should be in /usr/local/etc/rc.d - if this is the >> case and it utilizes the standard rc.subr startup system the first thing >> mentioned above should have taken care of it. If there is some other kind of >> manually created hard-coded script in /etc/local/etc/rc.d it will either >> need to be deleted or chmod to not execute. >> >> -Mike I would suggest that you remove both lines. named is off by default in /etc/defaults/rc.conf /Leslie
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