Trouble with key option (bind 9.2.4)
Mark Andrews
Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Mon Apr 4 22:33:27 UTC 2005
> Greetings!
>
> I'm attempting to set up a dial-in server that has both a named and a dhcpd
> running. So far everything works fine.
> However, I intend to allow dhcpd to do dynamic zone updates, but when I try t
> o
> convince bind to accept a key option (I need this one for authenticating my
> dhcpd against the named) I get the following error message:
>
> /etc/named.keys:4: unknown option 'key'
>
> /etc/named.keys is included in named.conf and has the following contents:
>
> # generated by genDDNSkey on Sat Apr 2 18:50:34 CEST 2005
>
> key DHCP_UPDATER {
> algorithm hmac-md5;
> secret "bla-blub";
> };
>
> According to the book "DNS and BIND" this should be correct, yet named refuse
> s
> to accept that option. To bypass the problem for now I have set named to chec
> k
> the IP address of the originating update request.
> In contrast, dhcpd takes the very same statement without a complaint.
> What gives?
>
> FYI:
> I'm using SuSE 9.2 (kernel 2.6.8-24.13)
> BIND: 9.2.4
> DHCP: 3.0.1
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
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And you included the file /etc/named.keys where in named.conf?
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