From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Jul 17 6:55:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from EXCHANGE.bwalk.com (exchange.bwalk.com [139.142.15.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B1B37B406 for ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 06:55:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from adam@suitesystems.com) Received: by EXCHANGE.bwalk.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:54:50 -0600 Message-ID: <493DE418616E9D48A5DB8E9FAAE1A8CF028EA410@EXCHANGE.bwalk.com> From: Adam Serediuk To: "'freebsd-isp@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: out of entropy Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 07:54:43 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Use the urandom device, not random. dnssec-keygen -r /dev/urandom -a HMAC-MD5 -b 128 -n HOST box.nexgen.com -----Original Message----- From: alexus [mailto:ml@db.nexgen.com] Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 4:27 PM To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: out of entropy I'm sorry in advance for a cross posting, I just need to resolve this issue a.s.a.p. I'm using FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and latest version of bind 9 su-2.05# dnssec-keygen -a HMAC-MD5 -b 128 -n HOST box.nexgen.com dnssec-keygen: failed to generate key box.nexgen.com/157: out of entropy su-2.05# any ideas why? and how do i get around it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message