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#1 Mon, 04/12/2010 - 10:00
PaliGap

Why BIND?

I've previously used Plesk for virtual hosting (BIG problems!). I would just switch off BIND and add OpenDNS (http://www.opendns.com/) to resolv.conf.

I've just done a clean install onto CentOS 5 with Virtualmin - and I see that, like Plesk, it assumes you want BIND.

Am I missing something here? Is there a speed gain in running BIND locally? But what about reliability?

Mon, 04/12/2010 - 10:23
andreychek

Howdy,

Well, like Apache for serving websites, BIND is the most popular DNS server on the Internet. If you look at a given DNS server, chances are it's running BIND. And I've seen no reliability problems with it :-)

So why does it run BIND locally?

Well, Virtualmin is trying to make your life easier... it's assuming that if you add a give domain to your system, that it's managing the DNS for it.

If that's not the case, no problem, you can simply disable the "DNS" feature in System Settings -> Features and Plugins.

At that point, it's also no problem to disable BIND and setup your server to use alternative DNS settings, such as the OpenDNS ones you mentioned.

-Eric

Thu, 04/15/2010 - 22:37
sgrayban

Actually there is a speed gain to using bind locally.

You do not have a to rely on anyone else to refresh/flush dns. You simply run the commands in console as root "rndc flush/reload" and dns is updated.

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