WG: RNDC with BIND 9.2.1 under Win2K

["Müller, Ralph"]

Hi Danny,

I'm not quit sure about rndc. The only thing I need is a normal
DNS-forwarding. I found several informations in the web about BIND 8x NT
with some control panels. In the BIND 9x version I do not find these. 

What des rndc and named do and witch conf-file is therefore needed. Is there
an example somewhere who to configure my easy problem on an NT and XP box?

Ralph

At 08:53 PM 7/19/02, Ralph wrote:

>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 ?

Configuring forwarding dns-servers has nothing to do with rndc.  If you
are trying to set up rndc, just run the rndc-confgen binary and paste the
screen output into the named.conf file.

Was there something I missed?

Danny
>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
> > >