managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': failure

zg123 · 2026-09-05T18:54:06+0100

Seeing this in the logs of a box that serves as a secondary DNS and does nothing else:

 

Aug  5 14:12:28 dns2 named[80113]: managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': failure

Aug  5 14:12:28 dns2 named[80113]: resolver priming query complete: failure

Aug  5 14:16:57 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times

Aug  5 14:17:40 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 7 times

Aug  5 14:30:15 dns2 named[80113]: managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': failure

Aug  5 14:30:15 dns2 named[80113]: resolver priming query complete: failure

Aug  5 14:31:57 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 1 times

Aug  5 14:33:51 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 9 times

Aug  5 14:43:48 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 40 times

Aug  5 14:53:22 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 32 times

Aug  5 15:03:42 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 23 times

Aug  5 15:11:44 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 6 times

Aug  5 15:12:28 dns2 named[80113]: managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': failure

Aug  5 15:12:28 dns2 named[80113]: resolver priming query complete: failure

Aug  5 15:12:34 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 4 times

Aug  5 15:14:54 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 19 times

Aug  5 15:25:02 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 48 times

Aug  5 15:29:35 dns2 syslogd: last message repeated 18 times

bind works.
DNSSEC is not enabled from what I can see in named.conf. There are no keys. Why is it trying to fetch them?

managed-keys-zone: Unable to fetch DNSKEY set '.': failure

zg123