rndc: connect failed....

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

hans schneidhofer wrote:
> okay here´s my named.conf.options:
> options {
>         directory "/var/cache/bind";
> 
>         // If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
>         // to talk to, you may need to fix the firewall to allow multiple
>         // ports to talk.  See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/800113
> 
>         // If your ISP provided one or more IP addresses for stable
>         // nameservers, you probably want to use them as forwarders.
>         // Uncomment the following block, and insert the addresses replacing
>         // the all-0's placeholder.
> 
> forwarders {
>         192.168.0.1;
> };
> 
>         auth-nxdomain no;    # conform to RFC1035
>         listen-on-v6 { any; };
> };
> 
> key "rndc-key" {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "6zjRjVh7zmf/518qj3FXgQ==";
> };
Add this:
  controls {
        inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
                allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };
  };

> 
> I should fairly say, that I have Karmic 9.10 with bind 9.6 and trying
> to get rid of that crazy thing :--) so i´m not too experienced

I have already switched to djbdns' tinydns for serving domain records 
and dnscache for handling recursive queries.