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