Problem running bind on freebsd

[Mark_Andrews at isc.org]

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I've got a problem running bind on freebsd.
> 
> This is my named.conf
> 
>  key "rndc-key" {
>        algorithm hmac-md5;
>        secret "b2n4rL4e32p1LJlj4ORUVA==";
>  };
> 
> controls {
>        inet 127.0.0.1 port 953 allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; }
> };
> options {
>         directory "/etc/namedb";
> ...
> 
> 
> This is my rndc.conf
> 
> key "rndc-key" {
>         algorithm hmac-md5;
>         secret "b2n4rL4e32p1LJlj4ORUVA==";
> };
> 
> options {
>         default-key "rndc-key";
>         default-server 127.0.0.1;
>         default-port 953;
> };
> 
> 
> Each time I start named I get the followin syslog entries.
> 
> Mar 28 08:57:29 test named[14088]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:17: syntax error
> near keys
> Mar 28 08:57:29 test named[14088]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:18: syntax error
> near '}
> 
> These are the 2 lines starting with "controls" in named.conf
> 
> named-checkconf gives no errors.
> 
> Somebody an idea??

	I'll ignore the missing semi-colon above and assume that that
	was a transcription error.

	I suspect that you are starting a old version of named (BIND 8)
	rather than BIND 9. What is named_program set to in /etc/rc.conf?

	named_program="/usr/local/sbin/named"

	Mark
> 
> 
> Tanx,
> 
> 	Hans
> 
> 
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