<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 dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439908720894_2777"><span>I have noticed that the named service is running in the current Raspberry PI 2 distribution.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439908720894_2853" dir="ltr"><span>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:-)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><br><span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Thanks for the assistance.</span></div><div> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1439908720894_2762" class="signature"><div>Kent Ochs</div><div>W9KAO<br> </div></div></div></body></html>