[H-GEN] named on RedHat 7.x

[Tony Nugent]

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On Fri Aug 09 2002 at 09:40, Ewan Edwards wrote:

> > On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Ewan Edwards wrote:
> > > A colleague of mine has recently setup DNS on a RedHat box at home and
> > > has asked why the default setup seems to have 5 instances of named
> > > running

> Is that configurable somewhere?  I understand it is for Apache with the
> StartServers directive in httpd.conf.

(The bind docs are in html format in /usr/share/doc/bind-*).

> > Unless he is managing a domain or needing a local caching dns server there
> > is no need to run _any_ copies of named.  If he is needing named I'd leave
> 
> Yes, he is managing a small domain, one of those HomeIP ones.

Just a suggestion...

Bind 9.x has a "lightweight resolver" module that puts the daemon
into a sort of "low resource" mode, you just configure a section for
it in the named.conf file.  I have never used it, but this might be
an ideal config for a small gateway gruntbox providing dns services
for a few boxes on an internal LAN.  I think it can do this while
still configured as a primary / secondary NS for domain zones.  And
with ACLs and the construction of "views", you can provide (or not
provide) completely different DNS services depending on (for
example) the client source IPs.

Cheers
Tony

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