Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:41:32 -0400 From: peter@vfemail.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Disabling DNS Message-ID: <20100420135751.A236B106572D@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <hqk7dv$45s$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20100420122612.AF005106564A@hub.freebsd.org> <hqk7dv$45s$1@dough.gmane.org>
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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?
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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
>
>
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