[H-GEN] named on RedHat 7.x

[Joel Michael]

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On Thu, 2002-08-08 at 17:41, 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 
> from start up.  I don't yet know anything about configuring bind so I'm 
> hoping some one on this list can help me answer the question.
> 
> I assume that if there is no good reason to maintain 5 instances, the next 
> question will be asking how to configure it to run, say, only one instance.
> 
> I've had a look on the network here at a Solaris box and a HPUX box both 
> running bind and seen that both have only the one instance running, so I 
> guess it isn't necessary to run multiple instances.
> 
> Any words of wisdom to guide the un-enlightened ones?
> 

I'm guessing, it's probably BIND 9.x?  And the same version of BIND on
the Solaris and HP boxen?  If so, it's probably due to the different way
that Linux and Solaris (I don't know about HP, I have barely used it)
report thread processes.  Linux tends to show each thread as a separate
process, while Solaris tends to show a single process (noting that it
has many threads).

Of course, I could be completely wrong (and I'd love to be corrected
here!)

Cheers!
-- 
Joel Michael

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