BIND issues with rndc

[Vivek Kumar]

Hi James,

Do the following thing to solve this problem:

vi /etc/named.conf file and uncomment the following lines:

controls {
 net 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; };

After this restart the named daemon.

# service named restart
or if it is desabled or stopped then
# service named start.

Hopefully this will solve your problem.

Thanks

Vivek

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:08, James Marcinek wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I recently upgraded my name server (running Red Hat) which upgraded
> versions of BIND. The Red Hat has a GUI tool (redhat-config-named), which
> I don't use; however it complicates things a bit as I now have to put my
> definitions in a file called named.custom. The problem I'm having is when
> I now start the service (or stop it) I get the following error:
> 
> service named restart
> Stopping named: rndc: no key definition for name /etc/rndc.key
>                                                            [FAILED]
> Starting named:                                            [  OK  ]
> 
> I've read some on the rndc issue and I have read through the man pages but
> so far I can't fix this problem. My named.conf (and named.custom) both
> have the following:
> 
> include "/etc/named.custom"; (this is only in the named.conf)
> include "/etc/rndc.key";
> 
> I already had an /etc/rndc.key file; however I wasn't sure if it was no
> longer valid. I tried the following:
> 
> rndc-confgen -a
> 
> then tried to restart the daemon but without success
> 
> rndc-confgen
> 
> having no success with this either.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
>