It’s always a negative!

I struggled a whole day getting bind to work properly after looking at 50 how-to’s and 100 some odd forum posts I got it to work.  Kinda silly it took this much work to get it working.  *shrug*

1. Install bind: sudo apt-get install bind9
2. Generate a new key (why the default one dosn’t work, but i couldn’t ever get it to): sudo rndc-confgen -a -b 128 -r keyboard
3. Copy the output into a file or just to your clipboard.
4. Open your named.conf, in it (probably very top would  be best) enter the info from the previous output.
5. Example: key “rndc-key” {
   // how was key encoded
   algorithm hmac-md5;
   // what is the pass-phrase for the key
   secret “<your special key>” ;
   };
6. Now you should create a rndc.conf file, it should look like this: options {
   // what host should rndc attempt to control by default
   default-server localhost;
   // and what key should it use to communicate with named
   default-key “rndc-key”;
   };server localhost {
   // always use this key with this host
   key “rndc-key”;
   };

7. key “rndc-key” {
   // how was the key encoded
   algorithm hmac-md5;
   // what’s the password
   secret “<your special key>”;
   };Check and make sure you have a rndc.key file, it should look like this: key “rndc-key” {
   algorithm hmac-md5;
   secret “<your special key>”;
   };
8. Now everything should work, just setup your databases and give it a try.  Let me know if it dosn’t work, I’ll see if Ileft something out