Re: BIND 9.x (/dev/random question)

[Chris Cappuccio <chris@dqc.org>]

Use the port of bind9, it calls the correct random device.
/dev/random is not ready yet

Quoting Tor Houghton <torh@bogus.net>:

> Hello,
> 
> I've been reading the docs for BIND 9.1.0, and it says the following
> about /dev/random:
> 
>   On FreeBSD systems, the server logs error messages like "fcntl(8,
> F_SETFL, 4):
>   Inappropriate ioctl for device". This is due to a bug in the FreeBSD
> /dev/random
>   device. The bug has been reported to the FreeBSD maintainers. Versions
> of
>   OpenBSD prior to 2.8 have a similar problem. 
> 
> I am still running 2.6 on some systems. What breaks with this "bug"? Can
> I fix
> /dev/random without upgrading to 2.8?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tor
> 
> 




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