BIND and the measure of system entropy (randomness?)

2007-12-11 Thread mufurcz
Greetings, A disk in one of the old firewalls (not exactly critical) failed (running OpenBSD 2.9!), and I urgently need a DNS server to work. Replaced the disk and installed 4.2. Starting `named -g` (listing below), produces a few surprising messages, like: a) line 3: BIND trying to load

Re: BIND and the measure of system entropy (randomness?)

2007-12-11 Thread Alexander Hall
Hi, mufurcz wrote: Greetings, A disk in one of the old firewalls (not exactly critical) failed (running OpenBSD 2.9!), and I urgently need a DNS server to work. Replaced the disk and installed 4.2. Starting `named -g` (listing below), produces a few surprising messages, like: a) line 3:

Re: BIND and the measure of system entropy (randomness?)

2007-12-11 Thread Andreas Maus
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:08:42AM +1100, mufurcz wrote: Hi. Greetings, A disk in one of the old firewalls (not exactly critical) failed (running OpenBSD 2.9!), and I urgently need a DNS server to work. Replaced the disk and installed 4.2. Starting `named -g` (listing below),

Re: BIND and the measure of system entropy (randomness?)

2007-12-11 Thread knitti
On 12/11/07, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 01:08:42AM +1100, mufurcz wrote: b) lines 34 and 35: `could not open entropy source /dev/arandom: file not found` and `using pre-chroot entropy source /dev/arandom` complaining about a missing