For more information about obtaining the appropriate rights to perform specific tasks, see Using Your Assigned Administrative Rights in Securing Users and Processes in Oracle Solaris 11.2 .
Before the named daemon will start, a valid configuration file must exist. The file is called /etc/named.conf by default. The configuration of named might be very simple. An empty file provides sufficient information to configure a caching only server, assuming that DNS root servers are accessible.
# touch /etc/named.conf # named-checkconf -z /etc/named.conf
This file is used to configure remote control access of the DNS server. See How to Create an rndc.conf File.
# svcadm enable dns/server