how stop the dns service?

[Felipe Martins]

hello, 
in  RedRat there is command 'service' to start, restart, stop and verify status of services.
- which command in debian is equivalent?
- how can i verify which services are running?
- is it possible to avoid a service being started during boot or machine initialization? 

thanks all.
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