Just curious what role SNMP and BIND play on a server. The two were recently disabled by my web host to increase server performance.

Thanks,

SNMP - http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/S/SNMP.html

BIND - http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/

BIND essentially is what runs DNS for *nix servers.

SNMP is a way of monitoring system performance. You can use MIBS to monitor just about any aspect of your server's health and performance.

Unfortunately, depending on what you are monitoring you can take a performance hit by running SNMP.

BIND, as BC stated is the daemon that, essentially, does DNS for your server. Its not much of a resource hog, generally, when it is shut down it is more for security purposes than performance issues.