Hey Bernd. So, the bind mounts I figured out via some other mailing list posts for SAMBA & other distros. Basically, OpenSUSE appears to chroot jail BIND/named, which cuts it off from accessing libraries needed for the
BIND9_DLZ mode.
Regarding what I'm trying to figure out... I haven't count a config item in SAMBA, or BIND/named, that lets me directly specify the LDB file that DLZ mode is trying to access. Per the
LDB website... "Currently ldb is completely lacking in programmer or user documentation."