"No source of entropy message" on Bind 9.2.1

[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Jul 03, 2002 at 02:53:00PM -0700, W. Tsoi wrote:
> 
> I have been trying to migrate an AIX RS6000 system running AIX 4.3.2
> from Bind 4 to Bind 9.2.1. Everything seems to be going fine until I
> started up BIND.
> 
> I received the following message in debug and BIND just stops.
> 
> Jul 03 16:42:09.727 starting BIND 9.2.1rc1 -d 1
> Jul 03 16:42:09.729 using 2 CPUs
> Jul 03 16:42:09.796 loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> Jul 03 16:42:10.168 listening on IPv4 interface en0, 49.27.4.71#53
> Jul 03 16:42:10.183 listening on IPv4 interface lo0, 127.0.0.1#53
> Jul 03 16:42:11.212 command channel listening on 127.0.0.1#953
> Jul 03 16:42:11.219 command channel listening on ::1#953
> Jul 03 16:42:11.220 no source of entropy found
> 
> I am wondering if anybody has seen this message before and what are
> the actions required to fix it.
> 
> The BIND server is running as a secondary to a SUN box running CNR
> 5.5.1.
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated.
> 
> William Tsoi

If you need "truly random" numbers for cryptographic purposes, you will
have to get the entropy gathering daemon (egd) or one of its friends.

Egd is at http://egd.sourceforge.net/ or
http://www.lothar.com/tech/crypto/

Another one has been mentioned, but I did not save the reference.

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