From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt) Description of problem: There is no control section in named.conf, that is why you need the killall -HUP named in /etc/init.d/named. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. /etc/init.d/named reload (or anything that uses rndc Actual Results: connection refused Expected Results: return value 0 Additional info: Fix: Put controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { key_name; }; }; in /etc/named.conf
Also, keyname "key" does not seem to work. I changed it to "mykey" and then it worked...
added in bindconf-1.5-1: controls { inet 127.0.0.1 allow { localhost; } keys { rndckey; }; }; include "/etc/rndc.key";