All of these steps do not have to be followed. If you think you find the problem in an early step you may proceed to step 6 to get the service running properly.
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 .
# 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.
# tail /var/svc/log/network-dns-server:default.log
# grep named /var/adm/messages
Running named in the foreground forces all logging to standard error so that it is easier to identify problems.
# named -g
# svcadm clear dns/server:default # svcs dns/server:default STATE STIME FMRI online 17:59:08 svc:/network/dns/server:default