It’s always a negative!

Bought a SATA 320 Western Digital Hard drive about 2 months ago, maybe less.  Fucker won’t spin up anymore.  This is why i don’t buy their crappy drives.  I’m a Seagate man, but this drive was cheap and avalible and I needed one then.  Now I do have a raptor, and that’s still going.  Not sure why they can’t make all their drives last as well as their raptors.  I suppose that’s why their expensive and the others are not. GRR  The RMA Process is on its way now, I hate not having my linux box.. I feel naked.

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