<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div>Dave,</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439922040498_4212">Had some funniness in the log the night before last. It was stable last night.</div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439922040498_4583" dir="ltr">I have my ISP's internal DNS servers and 8.8.4.4 defined in resolv.conf. Just wondering why the Named service was running and what, if anything it was being used for.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thank you for your reply.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Kent<br></div><div><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439922040498_4189" dir="ltr"><img class="ymail-preserve-class inline-image-guid-e41a97a3-3cc7-9078-fd63-5831585bba44 rte-inline-saved-image" src="cid:e6e239df-60b6-7129-3eb4-1b86b619354b@yahoo.com" data-id="inline-image-guid-e41a97a3-3cc7-9078-fd63-5831585bba44" alt="Inline image" style="width:100%;max-width:652px;max-height:442px;"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439922040498_4211"><span></span></div><div> </div><div class="signature">Kent Ochs</div><br> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> David McGough <kb4fxc@inttek.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Kent Ochs <kentochs@sbcglobal.net>; ARM Allstar <arm-allstar@hamvoip.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, August 18, 2015 1:01 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [arm-allstar] DNS Server<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br><br clear="none">Hi Kent,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Running a local DNS server is an hold over from my building hundreds of <br clear="none">custom routers. DNS on various ISP's is one of the things that I found to <br clear="none">be broken most frequently. Most ISP's allow traffic to the root servers, <br clear="none">so, I found that running local DNS fixes more issues than you might <br clear="none">imagine.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">However, running a local DNS server isn't a requirement for operation--as <br clear="none">long as you do have a working DNS server available.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Are you having trouble with DNS??? The default DNS configuration in this <br clear="none">distro shouldn't pose any security hazards.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">73, David KB4FXC<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yqt9014620473" id="yqtfd13044"><br clear="none">On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Kent Ochs wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I have noticed that the named service is running in the current Raspberry PI 2 distribution.</div><br clear="none">> In the overall scheme of things, is running a DNS server necessary? What role does the named service play in the current distribution, ie. if I disable it, what do I break:-)<br clear="none">> Thanks for the assistance. Kent OchsW9KAO<div class="yqt9014620473" id="yqtfd42013"><br clear="none">> <br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>