Unable to start BIND on Plesk server: Failed with result ‘timeout’

Symptoms

Unable to start BIND DNS server on Plesk server:

named[17147]: no longer listening on 127.0.0.1#53
bind9.service: Failed with result 'timeout'

Cause

Custom BIND configuration.

Resolution

1. Connect to the server via SSH.

2. Open /lib/systemd/system/bind9.service in any text editor like vi-editor and make sure that [Service] section looks as following:

   [Service]
   EnvironmentFile=/etc/default/bind9
   ExecStart=/usr/sbin/named $OPTIONS
   ExecReload=/usr/sbin/rndc reload
   ExecStop=/usr/sbin/rndc stop

3. Start BIND service:

   # systemctl daemon-reload && systemctl start bind9