RNDC with BIND 9.2.1 under Win2K

[Ralph]

Hi,

I got the same error and I'm not so used in configuring servers. Steve
can You please post all of your conf-files to give me an idea who to
configure my system for a only forwarding dns-server ?

Thanks
Ralph

Steve <steve at nospam.com> wrote in message news:<afidgf$5aq2$1 at isrv4.isc.org>...
> Working now. I needed a new day and a fresh mind!
> 
> I didn't know that named was writing entries into the Application Log. 
> Once I checked this, I could see that the problem was being caused by
> named.conf having an incorrect filename defined for root.hint.  The file
> in /namedb/ was called db.cache.  Renamed the db.cache file and
> everything works fine. 
> 
> 
> Steve wrote:
> > Hi Danny,
> > 
> > I have exactly the same problem on my W2K system, although I have 
> > installed BIND to a different directory. (E:\dns)
> > 
> > Initially I tried using the "rndc-confgen -a" command, and this
> > created the rndc.key file in the correct directory (E:\dns\etc).  When
> > I ran "rndc reload", I got the same error as described in this thread.
> > 
> > I then ran "rndc-confgen" and copied the following paragraphs into my 
> > named.conf file: (E:\dns\etc\named.conf)
> > 
> > key "rndc-key" {
> >      algorithm hmac-md5;
> >      secret "my-key-text";
> > };
> > 
> >  
> > controls {
> >       inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
> >      allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
> > };
> > 
> > I also created the rndc.conf file: (E:\dns\etc\rndc.conf)
> > 
> > key "rndc-key" {
> >      algorithm hmac-md5;
> >      secret "my-key-text";
> > };
> > 
> > options {
> >      default-key "rndc-key";
> >      default-server 127.0.0.1;
> >      default-port 953;
> > };
> > 
> > Note: The key paragraphs are taken from the generated rndc.key file.
> > 
> > The error remains the same.
> > errno2result.c:61: unable to convert errno to isc_result:  10057:
> > Socket is not connected
> > rndc: send failed: connection refused
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be much appreciated
> > 
> > Rgds,
> > Steve
> >