Using DigitalOcean's DNS C/P - Can I disable named service?

dustindauncey · Post by **dustindauncey** » Sat Jul 26, 2014 7:34 pm

I am using Digital Ocean's DNS control panel and using their name servers for redundancy as I only have one VPS. With that said, is it wise to disable named service so it isn't consuming memory, or does that need to remain for other functionality to occur like a lookup to an RBL in Spamassassin, for example? Basically Vesta CP's DNS functionality I do not plan on using right now and would like to disable it's services used so I can save the system memory from it.

erldcrtz · Post by **erldcrtz** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:02 am

dustindauncey wrote:I am using Digital Ocean's DNS control panel and using their name servers for redundancy as I only have one VPS. With that said, is it wise to disable named service so it isn't consuming memory, or does that need to remain for other functionality to occur like a lookup to an RBL in Spamassassin, for example? Basically Vesta CP's DNS functionality I do not plan on using right now and would like to disable it's services used so I can save the system memory from it.

yes you can disable services that you are not using... I use cloudflare for my DNS management

dustindauncey · Post by **dustindauncey** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 8:04 am

erldcrtz wrote:yes you can disable services that you are not using... I use cloudflare for my DNS management

Excellent, thank you! Glad to know that.

Post by **imperio** » Sun Jul 27, 2014 6:17 pm

Yes, you can disable dns server

for centos

Code: Select all

service named stop
chkconfig —del named

debian
ubuntu

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/etc/init.d/bind9 stop
update-rc.d -f bind9 remove

dustindauncey · Post by **dustindauncey** » Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:01 pm

imperio wrote:Yes, you can disable dns server

for centos
Code: Select all
service named stop
chkconfig —del named

Thank you imperio. I have done this now and will watch and see how it goes. So far so good. :-)

dakser · Post by **dakser** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:39 am

Hi, excuse me, are there any way to remove the DNS button in a case like this when it's not using this service? Thanks in advance.

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