Error : "Fatal, neither ndc or rndc was found on this server"

If when adding a entry for a hostname you get the following error "Fatal, neither ndc or rndc was found on this server"

SSH into your server as and su to root. Then check your /etc/rndc.key file if it should have around 3 lines in it if not you will need to open your named.conf file and copy the 3 lines from the top pertaining to the rndc key they should look like the following:

key "rndc-key" {

algorithm hmac-md5;

secret "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";

};

and copy that into the rndc.key file. Once you have done that you will need to

run /scripts/fixndc

once you have done that you should beable to run rndc -s localhost status and see basic information such as:

number of zones: 6

debug level: 0

xfers running: 0

xfers deferred: 0

soa queries in progress: 0

query logging is OFF

recursive clients: 0

/1000tcp clients: 0

/100server is up and running

If you get a error about file not found in /usr/local/etc/ you will need to create a symbolic like

ln -s /etc/rndc.key /usr/local/etc/rndc.key