Re: rndc-confgen -a hangs

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 15:12:28 -0500
"James K. Lowden" <[email protected]> wrote:

> The rndc(8) manpage says 'rndc-confgen -a' creates a default rndc.key
> file, but on my newly bootable NetBSD 3.0 Soekris box, it hangs.  I waited
> a minute or more.  Is it supposed to take forever, or is something wrong? 

My guess would be that there isn't enough data available in
/dev/random. rndc-config takes a -r option to change the source of
randomness. You also might want to look at rndctl to see what sources
for entropy are being used.


Kind regards
dieter

> I should note the clock still seems broken using the generic kernel on
> this machine.  It races ahead.  I'm hoping a custom kernel will eventually
> fix that, but I thought it might possibly affect the key generator.  
> 
> Google has been no help to me on this one.  :-(
> 
> Suggestions?  
> 
> --jkl
>