Hi Cassandra,You could roll your own really tiny distro without to much fuss with a busybox environent http://www.busybox.net + bind 9 + kernel. Busybox also has its own DHCP client and Bind compatible name server daemons so you could get away with not having ISC Bind9 maybe.
If you want to go that route, email me off list and I can get you setup.
Frank Cole
Cole Innovations, Inc.
Cassandra Brockett wrote:
I'm looking for an extremely minimalist *nix distro for running one
program - Bind, as a caching name server only.
There's a bunch of places I need to install these things, and I use the
Soekris for things like this, but I'm a little concerned using a distro
designed for firewalls (such as m0n0wall) due to the extra packages on
the system, basically I'd like something as small as possible.
So... If anyone knows of:-
a) A distro that has just the base system that I can compile
Bind (prefer Bind9) for and it has nothing else active/installed by
default.
b) A distro that might have extra packages, but the packages
need to be specifically enabled
I cannot have ANYTHING but bind responding on the network on these
boxen, hence the request for info. And yes, I mean anything, meaning
everything configuration is serial-based. I'm happy with a web-based
config or something for initial config, but once the systems are at
"production" stage even that can't be responding.
Oh and of course, anything I can just duplicate out about 20+ CF's for
the boxes post initial configuration would be great.
And one more thing, the boxes IP's will be set via DHCP at the remote
sites... I know I can build a distro for just this manually (and very
painfully), but I'd prefer not to reinvent the wheel (ie. I'm lazy).
--
Cassandra Brockett
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