Disabling DNS

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:41:32AM -0400, peter at 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?  

You could comment them out and leave them there for future reference.

////jerry



> 
> -------
> 
> At 08:43 AM 4/20/2010, Michael Powell wrote:
> >peter at 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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