A little birdy told me that Johnny Hughes said: ] > my DNS servers all survived the upgrade fine... ] > with one caveat... ] > the file "/etc/rndc.conf" got updated without any ".rpmnew" ] > preservation taking place... ] > as such, for servers to correctly reload their maps and other ] > such tasks via "rndc" i needed to update that file to re-include the ] > correct information for the key... ] > ] > just figured it deserved a mention... ] > ] > B. Karhan ] > simon at pop.psu.edu ] > PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator ] ] Benjiman, ] ] %verify(not size,not md5) %config(noreplace) %attr(0640,root,named) /etc/rndc.conf ] %verify(not size,not md5) %config(noreplace) %attr(0640,root,named) /etc/rndc.key ] ] (those lines in the bind SPEC file should have only replaced files that ] are not changed for rndc.conf and rndc.key) ] ] Do you maybe have the caching-nameserver RPM installed on an active DNS ] box that is used for zone control? nope... and my rndc.key file was preserved... it's altogether possible that the default rndc.conf worked fine before and used an "include rndc.key;" statement... but the new one definately did something else... (had a new key spec declared inconsistent with any existing rndc.key) B. Karhan simon at pop.psu.edu PRI/SSRI Unix Administrator