[CentOS] new CentOS 5 as DNS server

> As it will be a production server and this is my first foray into
> CentOS/SELinux in a production environment I was hoping to get a
> recommended list of what to include and, more specifically, what *not*
> to include from the distro CDs
> 
> I will be doing a text based install, hoping to avoid the installation
> of X.  Other than BIND and vsftpd, I don't think I need much.  This
> machine will be pulling zone files from my primary web server and
> storing some archive files and backups for me.
> 

Custom install and remove every package that you can except for bind, 
openssh-server, vsftpd and whatever you use for archiving and backups 
should do the trick.