Check if the program 'named' is running and listening. I don't know off the top of my head if /etc/rc.d/named supports the status command or not (
rc(8)), but finding out if it is running the hardway is still easy.
I'm not familiar with any of the dns/ apps in ports, so I can't say what name they would run under; but I'm sure someone here would point it out.
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Code:
$ ps xa | grep named
... is named running?
$ cat /var/run/named/pid
... does the pid file exist?
$ netstat -n -p udp | grep 53
... is anything listening on the usual port?
-> Assuming that the standard issue name server was used, you may want to check named.conf first, in case the settings were changed. On FreeBSD I believe this is etc/namedb/named.conf.
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