rndc.exe error

[Vinny Abello]

At 08:43 AM 6/1/2005, mayer wrote:
>----- Original Message Follows -----
> > At 09:57 PM 5/31/2005, Len Conrad wrote:
> > >bind 9.3 on w2k, runs, is listening on port 53, and 953 as shown by
> > >"netstat -na", is stop/starting from services applet, and resolving
> > and >logging fine.  bind logs itself in as windows account "named".
> > >
> > >c:\winnt\system32dns\etc\rndc.conf is:
> > >
> > >key "rndc-key" {
> > >         algorithm hmac-md5;
> > >         secret "<secret>";
> > >};
> > >
> > >options {
> > >default-server 127.0.0.1;
> > >default-key rndc-key;
> > >default-port 953;
> > >};
> > >
> > >=========>
> > >the key statement above is pasted from the "rndc-confgen -a" command
> > giving >the rndc.key file, which file is included into named.conf.
> > >
> > >The problem is that "rndc status"  gives the generic "rndc.exe has
> > >generated error and will be closed...log being created"
> > >
> > >event viewer /application shows nothing.
> > >
> > >thanks
> > >Len
> >
> > Try 9.3.1 instead. A lot of these crashes with utilities in BIND
> > 9.3.0 on Win32 I reported and seem to have been fixed in 9.3.1.
> >
>
>That's most unlikely. The only time that there have been problems
>was if different versions of dll's have been used. This is
>particularly true of the openssl dll: libeay32.dll which is used
>by other applications. That's the main reason that I recommend that
>people put all of the application binaries in their own directory.
>The installer used to put some of these files in the system32
>directory. That was changed to not do that.
>
>Danny

Well, if that is the case then I guess I got lucky as the 9.3.1 
binaries seem to mesh with whatever libeay32.dll is on my systems. I 
didn't use the installer. I'm just using some of the binaries and dll 
libraries. I don't think I had libeay32.dll prior on the system in my 
path if I remember correctly. I could be mistaken. I experienced 
these crashes with some utilities like named-checkconf and they went 
away in 9.3.1.


Vinny Abello
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