Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 10:43:52 -0500 From: stan <stanb@panix.com> To: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rndc-confgen -a goes off forever Message-ID: <20040130154352.GA19457@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20040130153350.GA78931@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20040130152214.GA18353@teddy.fas.com> <20040130153350.GA78931@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 03:33:50PM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 10:22:14AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm trying to set up bind 9 on a 4.9 STABLE machine. > > > > Looking in theprots message file, it says tehat I need to generate a source > > of random numberes by using rndc-confgen -a. When I type this command, it > > never returns (It's been linke 10 minutes). and to shos that it's not using > > any CPU cycles. I am running this as root. > > > > What am I doing wrong? > > Actually it says you need to set up a source of randomness /so that/ > rndc-confgen will work in a reasonable amount of time. > > Take a look at rndcontrol(8) and then at the output of > > vmstat -i > > so that you can choose two or three interrupts that occur relatively > frequently and enable those as feeds for the entropy source. Nb. > don't try enabling the clk or rtc interrupts for this purpose: those > tick at regular intervals, and the whole point is to exploit the > random spacing between interrupts. Use rndcontrol(8) to turn on the > entropy harvesting, and then leave the system to work for a while and > gather a bit of entropy. After that rndc-confgen(8) should work fine. Thanks for your help here. Again :-) -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
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