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Jailing BIND

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BIND is a popular application used by many to provide name services. However, it is not without certain risks. If you jail it, you can increase the security and reliability of name services.

I decided to share my experience, because I've done this on a handful of machines and have the routine down pretty well, and anybody else with the same problem set, on Ubuntu server, might find this helpful.

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Tools for managing services on Ubuntu servers

Tired to search for a nice ncurses interface to enable or disable services from your current runlevel? Recently discovered two good tools. You can get them by doing

apt-get install sysv-rc-conf rcconf

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