Monday, 24 August 2009

Error: Named rndc.key while starting

When trying to restart named process after making modifications may end up in a corrupt rndc.key key and the error will show like this:

Sep 12 03:30:54 server named[23683]: /etc/rndc.key:1: configuring key ‘rndc-key’: bad base64 encoding
Sep 12 03:30:54 server named[23683]: loading configuration: bad base64 encoding
Sep 12 03:30:54 server named[23683]: exiting (due to fatal error)


A simple explanation to this is that the key got modified somehow might me some bug.
What to do about this? Well it is simple just check the /etc/rndc.conf file and copy the key from there(you will see the key in the first lines of the file) and replace the key that it is in /etc/rndc.key file and restart named process.

# service named restart



Stopping named: [ OK ]
Starting named: [ OK ]

Go_GrEen^ThiNk_GReeN~LoVE_GreEn - Pushkar

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