On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, Michael Walma wrote: > I am looking for recommendations for an authoritative-only DNS server > to replace Bind on my virtual server slice. Bind is over-kill for my > needs, which is just to serve authoritative records for my domains > (with traffic at only dozens per day) and places too much of a demand > on my small slice. I know I could get DNS from a third party,
> but I like having complete control. So do I :-) try maradns + zoneserver Very lightweight compared to Bind. I used it for that reason. I have run maradns + postfix + Mailman + Apache + mysql + php + spampd spam filtering in a 256 MB Ubuntu VPS. The only issue is different zone files (but not difficult). Not as full featured as Bind. (I can provide you with a working example if you want.) > I've done some googling and am following a few leads, but most reviews > focus on performance rather than on minimizing footprint. Here's the memory usage: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 623 nobody 20 0 2068 684 508 S 0 0.1 0:10.11 maradns 1085 nobody 20 0 1884 456 348 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 zoneserver 1095 nobody 20 0 1884 316 188 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 zoneserver 1097 nobody 20 0 1884 304 176 S 0 0.1 0:00.00 zoneserver Brett _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list Linux@lists.oclug.on.ca http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux