Philip Plane 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. > > When I do this sort of thing I use OpenBSD. It fits easily on a 256M CF > card. It has practically nothing on by default, and you can turn the > rest off easily. It comes with bind9.
I use NetBSD for much the same reason. It comes with bind and dhcp, and nothing listens to the network by default. Serial console is no problem. To install, I netboot the install kernel and read the sets over NFS. --jkl _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
