From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 8: 6:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1A2337B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:06:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan2.tdx.co.uk [62.13.128.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CF6243E5E for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:06:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from blue-shift (kpielorz.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.13]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6/Kp) with ESMTP id g6NFAli32998; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:10:47 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:05:28 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: nathan@vidican.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: named issues... any ideas what this error intails? Message-ID: <458060786.1027440328@blue-shift> In-Reply-To: <200207231453.g6NErGA43135@mail.ipsnetwork.net> References: <200207231453.g6NErGA43135@mail.ipsnetwork.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0a3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On 23 July 2002 10:53 -0400 Nathan Vidican <@unspecified-domain> wrote: > Just recently switched from a dedicated ISDN connection to a faster DSL > [snip] > Here's what I get logged to /var/log/messages: > > Jul 23 10:42:20 home named[9937]: starting BIND 9.2.1 > Jul 23 10:42:20 home named[9937]: entropy.c:279: unexpected error: > Jul 23 10:42:20 home named[9937]: fcntl(35, F_SETFL, 4): Inappropriate > ioctl for device > > I have no idea what this means, nor how to fix it. Never did so until > now, and I can't see th reason why? Any ideas, comments, suggestions, > or even lectures would be greatly appreciated. It's a bug in the FreeBSD /dev/random device and it's support (or non support) of non-blocking mode in older versions of FreeBSD. It's "harmless" to bind, so long as your not using it's security features etc. (i.e. signed zones tsig et'al). For more details either search Google for the error - or have a hunt around the Bind/ISC website, Regards, -Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message