O.k. taking Nates mail and running with it I've hit a dead end. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but here goes. ns1 == my nameserver mybox == my firewall at home on cable modem Both boxen are redhat-7.3 and have the same bind version I generated key with following command dnssec-keygen -a hmac-md5 -b 128 -n HOST www.dolly-llama.org. I copy the files generated to my firewall box. My named.conf on my ns server has the following in it. key www.dolly-llama.org. { algorithm hmac-md5; secret "base64fromkeyfile.priv"; }; zone "dolly-llama.org" { type master; allow-query { any; }; file "slave/dolly-llama.org.zone"; update-policy { grant www.dolly-llama.org. name www.dolly-llama.org. A }; }; I have bind setup chroot()ed and secure so the only place it can write is slave/ directory. Only thing that zone file has in it is the necessary stuff. there is no www record in it. When I run nsupdate -k /path/to/crazynamedkeyfile and tap tap tap in all th goodies to add my www host, after the final extra \n I get dns_request_getresponse: tsig indicates error and in the logs on the nameserver I see Jun 4 21:39:25 ns1 named{15528]: client 24.245.5.130#32811: request has invalid signature: tsig verify failure Now I ask you, what the heck am I missing? -- Ben Lutgens | http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ System Administrator | http://www.sistina.com/ Sistina Software Inc. | "I got a wife and kids too but you don't see me out here stealing Imperial Droids now do ya?" -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020605/0561f85f/attachment.pgp