[SOLVED] Configuring chrooted bind and rndc-confgen Hangs Not Generating a Key

I am putting together a chrooted installation of named and ran into a problem whereby attempting to generate an rndc.key with rndc-confgen just hangs, never returning and not generating a key.

After doing some searching I discovered that I needed to run the command as follows:

rndc-confgen -a -r /dev/urandom  -t /var/named/chroot

Which outputs the following, generating the key file that I expected.

wrote key file "/etc/rndc.key"
wrote key file "/var/named/chroot/etc/rndc.key"

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