Re: BIND 9.19.24 not listening to rndc port (953)

On Jul 1, 2024, at 9:18 AM, Craig Leres <leres@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> On 6/30/24 04:46, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>> Short description: Fresh install of bind9-devel-9.19.24_1 doesn't
>> listen to localhost port 953, with the result that rndc doesn't work.
>> Problem is 100% reproducible.
> 
> bind-tools-9.18.27_1 with 14.1-RELEASE-p1 suffers from this as well.

I was ignoring this until now but finally chased it down! I had to add

       inet 127.0.0.1 port 953
         allow { 127.0.0.1; } keys { "rndc-key"; };

to "controls { ... }" in /etc/named.conf