RNDC troubles

[Godfried Duodu]

I have successfully compiled bind-9.1.1 on RH 6.2 and a 2.4.2 kernel and generated a key from the dnssec-keygen 

command for rndc.conf file.
When I run the rndc reload command I get the error messages: 
"rndc:connection refused".
When I issued rndc stop command, named gets stopped.
I generated the keys a couple of times and still getting the same error messages. I have included the log messages 

and the relevant files below for scrutiny.
 What am I doing wrong?
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statement in named.conf:

key rndc_key {
     algorithm hmac-md5;
     secret "vf3nm1L95/qYmsLz2pfQCA==";
};
controls {
         inet * allow { any; } keys { rndc_key; };

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statement in rndc.conf:
options {
        default-server 127.0.0.1;
        default-key   rndc_key;
};
server localhost {
   key  rndc_key
key rndc_key {
     algorithm  hmac-md5;
     secret "vf3nm1L95/qYmsLz2pfQCA==";
};
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error report from /var/log/messages:
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: starting BIND 9.1.1
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: using 1 CPU
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 192.168.0.131#53
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: couldn't find key rndc_keys for use with command channel 0.0.0.0#953
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: command channel listening on 0.0.0.0#953
Apr 14 07:45:19 linuxserv ./named[896]: running