Minimal disk space for bind 8.2.2-p7

[Kevin Darcy]

And, of course, to save even more disk space, make sure to compile
without the "-g" option. And strip the binaries.

The downside is that if named ever crashes on one of your boxes, the
corefile will be far less useful in debugging.


- Kevin

Kevin Darcy wrote:

> Minimally, all you need are the named (or "in.named" if you're into
> Sun-isms) and named-xfer binaries.
>
> On the master, assuming it has no slave zones whatsoever, you wouldn't
> technically even need named-xfer.
>
> Of course, you should allow space for the zone files and .ixfr files
> themselves...
>
> (Actually, I thought IXFR was broken prior to 8.2.3. Are you sure it
> even works in 8.2.2-p7?)
>
> - Kevin
>
> config_t at my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > I have compiled bind 8.2.2-p7 on my Solaris x86
> > test system and have it working correctly. I need
> > to distribute it to my x86 production systems
> > (currently a mix of (1)8.2.1 master, (2)4.9.7
> > slaves).
> >
> > The production systems have limited disk space
> > and will not do anything other than run bind "out
> > of the box". Nothing fancy, no keygen, no custom
> > apps. I will be using notify w/incremental
> > updates. I am looking for 'BIND LITE'.
> >
> > Will bind work correctly if I only use:
> > HOMEDIR/bin
> > HOMEDIR/sbin
> > HOMEDIR/etc
> >
> > and not use:
> > HOMEDIR/lib
> > HOMEDIR/include
> >
> > If possible, I would like to leave out:
> > HOMEDIR/bin/addr
> > HOMEDIR/bin/dnsquery
> > HOMEDIR/bin/mkservdb
> > HOMEDIR/sbin/dnskeygen
> > HOMEDIR/sbin/irpd
> >
> > Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated.
> >
> > Steve O.
> > config_t at yahoo.com
> >
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