> Do you have any fancy configuration in /etc/rc.conf or /etc/rc.conf.d/named9?
> Do you use rc_fast_and_loose=YES ?

I just changed the named9_flags="..." to named_flags="..." in rc.conf
and now it passes the flags correctly.

Must be to do with the

name="named"

in /etc/rc.d/named9

Is this worth fixing?

Thanks

Amadeus