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Date:      Mon, 29 Nov 2004 18:54:50 +0100
From:      Kees Plonsz <kees@jeremino.homeunix.net>
To:        dave <dmehler26@woh.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: bind9 rndc chroot on 5.3
Message-ID:  <20041129175503.4D12943D54@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <list.freebsd.questions#000501c4d634$d9720bf0$0400a8c0@satellite>

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dave wrote:

> Hello,
>     I'm trying to set up an rndc key for bind9 on a 5.3 box. I have
> generated the key with dnssec-keygen but when i run rndc bind hangs. I've
> read the handbook, i want to make a 5.3 master dns server for two domains,
> i will not be doing any transfers, if anyone has a howto on this please
> let me know as googling only showed the handbook chapter.
> Thanks.
> Dave.

To generate a key for rndc, I used "rndc-confgen".
If you are running named with chroot, wich is the
default installation, be shure that
the keyfile is "/var/named/etc/namedb/rndc.key"

I think "dnssec-keygen" is for generating a key for
secure hostname lookups and not for rndc commands.



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