Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com> writes:

> I got a request in private mail for an rndc setup cheat-sheet.  Let me
> post it here to save other folks a bit of time.

...

> Remember to chmod /etc/rndc.conf and /etc/named.conf to mode 600.  (I
> think one can use the named include directive to put the secret in
> some other file and only make the keyfile mode 600.  I didn't do that
> yet.)

You can do that. Obviously important for people like myself that
maintain named.conf centrally and copy it out onto my various
nameservers.

Johan