Maybe I need to be clearer. If I were to want to use a text editor and open up the contents of a file containing the code that freebsd executes when it is resolving a DNS request, which file might I want that to be? I have tried to google the answer but for some strange reason the words "bind" and "source" are ambiguous in the networking world.
Well I do know, but you essentially asked for where you might find the source code for BIND.
If you want to understand the inner workings of BIND I would suggest that you download the source from their site (from the grey box on the link that I gave you). That you can open up and look at in an editor, and for the internals you are probably better of asking questions in the bind-user mailing list here https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo.
Then the one that is shipped with your precise version of freebsd can be found in /usr/src/contrib/bind9 and /usr/src/etc/namedb
It's a bit circumstantial, but resolver(3) and resolver(5) both end with references to "Name Server Operations Guide for BIND". The resolv libs in /usr/src/lib/libc/resolv are (c) ISC. You'll find most of the action in /usr/src/contrib/bind9/ and /usr/src/lib/libc/resolv/.
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