BIND on Mandrake 10. rndc causing trouble!!

**Linux_n00b** · 03-31-2005

Hello ppl,

I installed BIND on Mandrake 10 using Mandrake rpms. Everything went fine and BIND was successfully installed. Now the only problem i am having is that whenever I try to restart named it gives me a problem:

Stopping named: rndc: connect failed: connection refused

And I am getting nowhere in setting up a functional caching nameserver.

. I am clueless as to what I am missing. please help!!!

**Flatline** · 03-31-2005

It may be as simple as an extra } bracket in your named.conf. When you run

Code:

tail -f /var/log/system

do you see any errors?

rndc needs a controls statement like

Code:

controls &#123;
  inet 127.0.0.1 allow &#123; localhost; &#125; keys &#123; <key-name>; &#125;;
&#125;;

to connect. The <key-name> value relates to the key statement, also in the named.conf file, something like

Code:

key "<key-name>" &#123;
  algorithm hmac-md5;
  secret "<key-value>";
&#125;;

Does your named.conf file have these? The <key-value statement is an hmac-md5 key. To create your own hmac-md5 key, use

Code:

dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b <bit-length> -n HOST <key-file-name>

**Linux_n00b** · 03-31-2005

Thanx a lot bud. Enerythign i up and running now!! This forum roxx big time

**Flatline** · 03-31-2005

Which one was the fix? Just so the next guy can search and find it.

**Linux_n00b** · 04-01-2005

The missing rndc key was causing trouble. Fixed that up by creating a new key and everything was on track!

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