dnskey-keygen problem

Mark.Andrews at nominum.com Mark.Andrews at nominum.com
Fri May 4 13:48:13 UTC 2001


> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm recently installed bind 9.1.1 and I'm tryied to create a key
> using the command
> 
> dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 128 -n user rndc
> 
> but I cannot create the key because I receive the following error
> 
> dnssec-keygen: failed to generate key rndc/157: out of entropy
> 
> I-ve freebsd 4-3-Stable.
> 
> Is it a bug or a configuration problem.
> 
> Thank you very much,
> Raffaele D'Albenzio.
> 
> 

	It's a OS bug.  /dev/random returns EOF not EWOULDBLOCK/EAGAIN
	when it is out of entropy in non-blocking mode.

	Mark
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