On Jan 26, 2011, at 9:50 PM, Alan Clegg wrote: > On 1/26/2011 9:39 PM, donovan jeffrey j wrote: > >> I had some issue with an invalid key so i ran rndc-confgen -a which >> gave me a new key in /etc/rndc.key. so now rndc works fine. >> >> but when looked at /etc/rndc.conf the key was different than the >> /etc/rndc.key. i thought they had to be the same for this to work. >> I'm assuming that i should replace the key the rndc.conf, or maybe >> it's not needed since I'm loading directly from named.conf ? >> >> any insight or flames welcome. -j > > If you use /etc/rndc.key, you don't want an /etc/rndc.conf. > > BIND reads /etc/rndc.key on startup and rndc reads /etc/rndc.key when it > runs.
thanks for replies, okay so what is the rndc.conf for ? -- my finger is on the rm button. is it for listing other server keys ? -j _______________________________________________ bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
