Stop unneccessary DNS services?

[mikelegg]

I have a server that formerly had the role of DNS server as well a web server, but is now just a web server.

Now that it doesn't have to perform the DNS server role, are there any services that I can switch off to conserve resources.

 

[kotakomputer]

Just remove the DNS Service.

 

[mikelegg]

I think that might be a bit dangerous because (if I understand the system correctly) the web servers still use Bind to write their zone files before they are pushed to the DNS servers.

I don't think there's anything that can be turned off. But the burden of providing DNS information stops once the server is no longer being queried as an authoritative name server.

 

[JaredR.]

In Main >> Service Configuration >> Nameserver Selection, select "Disabled." Also, in Main >> Service Configuration >> Service Manager, make sure that BIND/named or NSD is disabled. After making these changes, no DNS service will start, and cPanel will function normally.

 

[mikelegg]

In Main >> Service Configuration >> Nameserver Selection, select "Disabled." Also, in Main >> Service Configuration >> Service Manager, make sure that BIND/named or NSD is disabled. After making these changes, no DNS service will start, and cPanel will function normally.

Thanks for confirming that.

 

[mikelegg]

The only odd thing I notice now is that when I enable SPF on a domain via cPanel, I get the following error message ... "Status: Enabled, WARNING: SPF cannot be used because this server is not a DNS server for domain.tld [?]"

The SPF record does appear to be successfully added to the DNS zone though.

 

[cPanelTristan]

The server isn't being used for DNS services, so it isn't a server for DNS for that domain. The SPF and domain keys area (cPanel > Email Authentication) isn't able to detect that the machine has been clustered to other servers which are handling the DNS services. Since the records are properly adding and the message is correct that the machine isn't a DNS server for the domain, the scenario that is happening is accurate.