Working With Oracle^® Solaris 11.3 Directory and Naming Services: DNS and NIS

Troubleshooting DNS Server Startup Issues

Try the following checks if you have problems with DNS startup. You must first become an administrator.

• Check the DNS service status.

  # svcs -x dns/server:default
  svc:/network/dns/server:default (BIND DNS server)
  State: online since Tue Oct 18 19:35:00 2011
  See: named(1M)
  See: /var/svc/log/network-dns-server:default.log
  Impact: None.

• Check the DNS service log file.

  # tail /var/svc/log/network-dns-server:default.log

• Check system log messages.

  # grep named /var/adm/messages

• Start the named daemon manually. Running named in the foreground forces all logging to standard error so that it is easier to identify problems.

  # named -g

After the issue has been fixed, clear the maintenance required state.

# svcadm clear dns/server:default
# svcs dns/server:default
STATE          STIME    FMRI
online         17:59:08 svc:/network/dns/server:default