I figured it out. my /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key was empty and I needed to
copy /etc/rndc.key to replace it (installed by the caching-nameserver package)
Command:
(/var/named/chroot/etc)> cp /etc/rndc.key .
I hope that helps. If you have bind-chroot package installed, then the rndc.key
named uses isn't in the /etc/rndc.key but is in /var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key
Thanks to anduin and DA-MAN on
irc.redhat.com #fedora for assistance and many
others.
:-)