dnskey-keygen problem
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri May 4 13:48:13 UTC 2001
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm recently installed bind 9.1.1 and I'm tryied to create a key
> using the command
>
> dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 128 -n user rndc
>
> but I cannot create the key because I receive the following error
>
> dnssec-keygen: failed to generate key rndc/157: out of entropy
>
> I-ve freebsd 4-3-Stable.
>
> Is it a bug or a configuration problem.
>
> Thank you very much,
> Raffaele D'Albenzio.
>
>
It's a OS bug. /dev/random returns EOF not EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN
when it is out of entropy in non-blocking mode.
Mark
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