After upgrade from 15.3 to 15.4 DNS failure (also occurs with 15.3 Package update and 15.3 to 15.5 upgrade)

As your strategy is trial and error get a pristine install first:

3400G:~ # rpm -V bind
.M....G..  g /run/named
3400G:~ # 

To my experience this works. Only then make changes as needed.