Anyone have success with the Bind v9 rndc command

["Chuck" <redhat clinicomp com>]

I just replaced our coporate mail/dns server with a RH 7.1 machine, not
realizing that it came with Bind v9 only. Instead of hacking around and
downgrading to 8.2, I got it to finally load my named.conf/zone files
and answering queries. However, the replacement for ndc, rndc does not
seem to be working for me.

Has anyone got this command to do anything?

This is all I ever get:
charger:/etc #rndc -s charger stats
rndc: connect: connection refused
charger:/etc #rndc -s localhost reload
rndc: connect: connection refused
charger:/etc #rndc reload
rndc: connect: connection refused
 

Thanks,
CC