Bind omnios

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Omnios does not have a dns server package in their official repo. In their 'unofficial' ms.omniti.repo they do, but that one lacks the SMF xml script.

The easiest way to get a running bind server is enabling the uulm.mawi repo:

# pkg set-publisher -g http://scott.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/release uulm.mawi

Verify the repo is enabled:

# pkg publisher 
PUBLISHER                             TYPE     STATUS   URI
omnios                                origin   online   http://pkg.omniti.com/omnios/release/
uulm.mawi                             origin   online   http://scott.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/release/

Then we can install it with:

# pkg install service/network/dns/bind

This will install bind but it is not enabled by default. Fortunately this is very easy. First find the service name:

# svcs -a | grep dns
disabled       13:21:43 svc:/network/dns/install:default
disabled       13:21:43 svc:/network/dns/client:default
disabled       13:21:45 svc:/network/dns/multicast:default
disabled       14:29:16 svc:/network/dns/server:default

The last one looks like the right one, so we enable it with

# svcadm enable dns/server
# svcs -a | grep dns
disabled       13:21:43 svc:/network/dns/install:default
disabled       13:21:43 svc:/network/dns/client:default
disabled       13:21:45 svc:/network/dns/multicast:default
online         14:30:50 svc:/network/dns/server:default

So, that was easy. But chances are it will not do much, because we have no /etc/named.conf and consequently, no bind configuration.

This bind package has a file /etc/named.conf.sample, so we copy that to /etc/named.conf and modify it to our liking. For a caching server the only change you probably need to do is adapt the allow-recursion parameter to match your network.

Finally if you want (and probably do want) to control bind using rndc, generate a key using rndc-confgen -a. This will generate the /etc/rndc.key file. After this, just restart bind again:

# svcadm disable dns/server
# svcadm enable dns/server

From another host query the dns service, it should work.