After quite a few opensuse Tumbleweed dist-upgrade, it failed to start named after reboot. Below the investigations notes.

00.systemctl status named.txt

# systemctl status named
● named.service - LSB: Domain Name System (DNS) server, named
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/named; generated; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: inactive (dead)
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)

01.journalctl-unit-named.tail.txt

# journalctl --unit named --catalog --pager-end

Apr 28 13:19:27 laurel systemd[1]: Stopping LSB: Domain Name System (DNS) server, named...
-- Subject: Unit named.service has begun shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit named.service has begun shutting down.
Apr 28 13:19:28 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on 192.168.124.27#53
Apr 28 13:19:28 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on 192.168.124.27#53
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: received control channel command 'stop'
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: shutting down: flushing changes
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on ::#53
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on ::#53
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
Apr 28 13:19:32 laurel named[20360]: exiting
Apr 28 13:19:34 laurel named[30705]: Shutting down name server BIND  waiting for named to shut down ..done
Apr 28 13:19:34 laurel systemd[1]: Stopped LSB: Domain Name System (DNS) server, named.
-- Subject: Unit named.service has finished shutting down
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit named.service has finished shutting down.

02.named-general.log

/var/lib/named/log/general.log
28-Apr-2017 13:19:32.465 general: shutting down: flushing changes
28-Apr-2017 13:19:32.468 general: stopping command channel on 127.0.0.1#953
28-Apr-2017 13:19:32.622 general: exiting

03.named-named.log

/var/lib/named/log/named.log
28-Apr-2017 13:19:32.489 network: no longer listening on ::#53
28-Apr-2017 13:19:32.489 network: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53

04.systemctl.txt

# systemctl is-enabled named
named.service is not a native service, redirecting to systemd-sysv-install.
Executing: /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install is-enabled named
enabled
# systemctl is-active named
inactive
# systemctl is-failed named
inactive

05.systemctl-cat-named.txt

# systemctl cat named
# /run/systemd/generator.late/named.service
# Automatically generated by systemd-sysv-generator

[Unit]
Documentation=man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
SourcePath=/etc/init.d/named
Description=LSB: Domain Name System (DNS) server, named
Before=nss-lookup.target
After=network-online.target
After=ldap.service
Wants=nss-lookup.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=forking
Restart=no
TimeoutSec=5min
IgnoreSIGPIPE=no
KillMode=process
GuessMainPID=no
RemainAfterExit=yes
SuccessExitStatus=5 6
ExecStart=/etc/init.d/named start
ExecStop=/etc/init.d/named stop
ExecReload=/etc/init.d/named reload

06.installation-summary.txt

# zypper install etckeeper
# zypper install tmux
# zypper install joe
# zypper install man
# zypper dist-upgrade
# zypper install yast2-sudo
# zypper install nmap
# zypper install findutils-locate
# zypper install bind
# zypper install patterns-openSUSE-yast2_install_wf
# zypper install patterns-openSUSE-yast2_basis
# zypper install postfix
# zypper addrepo http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware/openSUSE_Factory_ARM/hardware.repo