Question about message "your system is lacking dev/random (or equivalent)"

[Mark Andrews]

This is the warning message named emits when it can't find /dev/random.

20-Apr-2010 02:46:35.879 could not open entropy source /dev/random: file not found

The message, in question, is NOT emitted by named if it has been
correctly linked.  I suspect that the wrong shared library is being
found.

Named only needs /dev/random to generate new signature when DSA or
NSEC3DSA is being used to sign dynamic zones.

Named does NOT need /dev/random to validate responses.

Mark
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