Disabling BIND on CentOS/Fedora to reduce memory usage

BIND is used to provide domainname resolution services. Our OS installs do include BIND by default. To save approximately 10 megabytes of memory follow our steps below. NOTE: If you are serving zones from your server directly do not follow these steps!

bash# service named stop
Stopping named:                                            [  OK  ]
bash# chkconfig --level 3 named off

You'll also need to ensure your /etc/resolv.conf has the following lines:

nameserver 64.79.200.111
nameserver 64.79.200.113

If there are any lines referencing 127.0.0.1 be sure and delete them.