Rndc problem

[Pete Ehlke]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:24:35PM -0700, John Tobias wrote:
> 
> I just installed BIND 9.2.1 on a Freebsd 4.5-RELEASE box, and I'm getting
> the following log messages:
> 
> Jun  4 18:19:17 fcdns01 named[136]: none:0: open: /usr/local/etc/rndc.key:
> file not found
> Jun  4 18:19:17 fcdns01 named[136]: couldn't add command channel
> 127.0.0.1#953: file not found
> Jun  4 18:19:17 fcdns01 named[136]: none:0: open: /usr/local/etc/rndc.key:
> file not found
> Jun  4 18:19:17 fcdns01 named[136]: couldn't add command channel ::1#953:
> file not found
> 
> When I've tried to run rndc-confgen -a, the command just sits there and does
> nothing. I'll wait and wait, and still nothing. Finally, I have to kill the
> process (ctl-C). Anyone recognize this problem?
> 
Yes. You don't have a source of entropy configured.

Add an appropriate list of rand_irqs to /etc/rc.conf. If you don't feel
like rebooting to enable that, man rndcontrol.

-Pete