106974 – bind: rndc-confgen should use /dev/urandom

Bug 106974 - bind: rndc-confgen should use /dev/urandom

Summary: bind: rndc-confgen should use /dev/urandom

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Server (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2005-09-23 03:10 UTC by Michal Margula
Modified:	2005-11-11 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description Michal Margula 2005-09-23 03:10:42 UTC

Usually on serves you can't get enough entropy from /dev/random so

/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -a -u named

Blocks forever. I would recommend using:

/usr/sbin/rndc-confgen -r /dev/urandom -a -u named

Comment 1 Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-11 16:11:03 UTC

since 9.2.5-r10, 9.3.1-r8 and 9.3.2_beta2-r2 ebuild will try to use /dev/
urandom, if it exists and it's a character device.

thanks for suggestion, Michal.