Bug 106974

Summary:	bind: rndc-confgen should use /dev/urandom
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michal Margula <alchemyx>
Component:	[OLD] Server	Assignee:	Konstantin Arkhipov (RETIRED) <voxus>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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.