/etc/rndc.key - file not found

[Yaro]

Hi,

I have upgraded from bind 8... to 9.2.1 and now,
after starting named everything is ok, except
I find in /var/adm/messages:

Nov 19 11:38:34 server_name named[21729]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] none:0:
open: /etc/rndc.key: file not found

There is no rndc.key file in /etc but also this file
is not in instalation directory! Where to find
this file or what to do to stop this message.

Best regards
Yaro

[p...@icke-reklam.ipsec.nu]

Yaro <admi...@wp.pl> wrote:
> Hi,

Read the documentation that comes with bind-9, there is a section
( end of 3.4.1.1 that explicitly describes this)

> Best regards
> Yaro

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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 06:28:49PM +0100, Yaro wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have upgraded from bind 8... to 9.2.1 and now,
> after starting named everything is ok, except
> I find in /var/adm/messages:
>
> Nov 19 11:38:34 server_name named[21729]: [ID 866145 daemon.error] none:0:
> open: /etc/rndc.key: file not found
>
> There is no rndc.key file in /etc but also this file
> is not in instalation directory! Where to find
> this file or what to do to stop this message.
>

> Best regards
> Yaro

(1) read doc/misc/migration
(2) run '/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -a'

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[Yaro]

> (1) read doc/misc/migration
done - but with no understanding :-(

> (2) run '/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -a'
done - but what to type after this message:

# ./rndc-confgen -a
You must use the keyboard to create entropy, since your system is lacking
/dev/random (or equivalent)

start typing:

I started but it didn't bring any result. So I pressed Ctrl+c to
exit.

Thanks for help
Yaro

[Nate Campi]

You need to keep typing until it says to stop.
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in comp.protocols.dns.bind i read:

>On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:33:19AM +0100, Yaro wrote:

>> done - but what to type after this message:
>>
>> # ./rndc-confgen -a
>> You must use the keyboard to create entropy, since your system is lacking
>> /dev/random (or equivalent)

you can type anything you like. it will be discarded.

>> I started but it didn't bring any result. So I pressed Ctrl+c to
>> exit.
>
>You need to keep typing until it says to stop.

or setup /dev/random.

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[Joseph S D Yao]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 10:33:19AM +0100, Yaro wrote:

> > (1) read doc/misc/migration
> done - but with no understanding :-(
>
> > (2) run '/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -a'

> done - but what to type after this message:
>
> # ./rndc-confgen -a
> You must use the keyboard to create entropy, since your system is lacking
> /dev/random (or equivalent)
>

> start typing:

>
> I started but it didn't bring any result. So I pressed Ctrl+c to
> exit.
>

> Thanks for help
> Yaro

You do what it says - you type. Anything. Random gibberish.
Something like this:

skeng'iwerng'aiwrg oainetb apj wroignWEPRG OUAZN ZI BOAIZN 'THNBM
SA304A'M"Q m
'pwmegf'apmrebaopmnb

atkhamwrgma;se;htmsa4pm bpamewrlkgfdnggiajnmrlkhgamn;etokhbm
aodfmfak43tm'EKGM A'F;LKBMZ.DVBM
APFEKMH'A;MEHAPO5TMHA?DWMG'CDMMG"ARWKGM'AMWEG;LAEMR;HGLMRTHA;

and it turns the random keystrokes into a random selection of key for
the communications. It will eventually tell you to stop.