[OpenIndiana-discuss] DNS server startup fails to maintenance

[Carl Brewer]

On 2/02/2026 8:39 am, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
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>> Is there a way to do this via svccfg -s svc:/network/dns/server:default and changing the listprop
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> Tbh, either you should fix the long transfer time, or if thats not possible, use wrapper to start named in background so the service start will not time out.


I don't know the actual answer here, but BIND shouldn't drop out at all, 
despite a long xfer.  A long, or failed, xfer should not cause it to go 
into maintenance. If it can't read named.conf properly, sure, but 
otherwise, BIND should start and be persistent.