how to get the secret key in named.conf

[Michael Kjorling]

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Your imagination.

If you want to generate one, something like this might do:

	dd if=/dev/random bs=16 count=1 2>/dev/null | mimencode

Replace 16 with your desired key length, in bytes (bits/8).

How to find it? Well, look in your named.conf...


Michael Kjörling


On Dec 19 2001 12:38 -0800, Tony wrote:

> How do I find or generate the key in named.conf?
>
> eg:
>
> key test. {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "AK5nBT0vCFhemCmZ0J1+Yw==";
> };
>
>
> Where does: secret "AK5nBT0vCFhemCmZ0J1+Yw=="; come from?
>
> Thanks

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