two SOA queries

Hi
I have the following setup

A "root zone" domain. which is served by a Microsoft Windows2000 DNS Server
and is also Forest Root Domain for the Active Directory. This Zone is
managed by some other folks, and has 14 NS Records (!). I told them to
delete some of them, but they didn't believe me, but this is another
story.....

We run two DNS Server (lucent DNS BIND 8.2.6) which are Slave server for the
domain. . They start up ok and do also the zone transfer properly. On some
time they will do a reload of the zone and dump the file. This is as
expected. But when I stop the server and start it again it rejects the zone
domain. with the message that there were 2 SOA records.

A look in the db file shows the following:

;BIND DUMP V8
$ORIGIN .
domain 86400 IN SOA foodn0001.foo.domain. root.domain. (
3002052387 7200 3600 604800 86400 ) ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS foodn0001. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS fffsm0007.subdomain1.domain. ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.213.10.199 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 169.254.133.166 ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS fffsm0006.subdomain1.domain. ;Cl=1
600 IN A 169.254.164.105 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.213.10.101 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.32.100.135 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.32.100.234 ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainbmnds01.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainbmnds02.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainbmnds02.domainserv.com. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainctfs01.domainserv.com. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domaindbnds01.domainserv.com. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainbmnds01.domainserv.com. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS foodn0001.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domaingsdns01.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainlng.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domainctfs01.domain. ;Cl=1
86400 IN NS domaindbnds01.domain. ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.63.2.37 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.63.2.38 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.63.2.39 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.63.2.40 ;Cl=1
600 IN A 10.213.10.41 ;Cl=1
$ORIGIN .
domain 86400 IN SOA foodn0001.foo.domain. root.domain. (
3002052387 7200 3600 604800 86400 ) ;Cl=1
$ORIGIN domain.
host0001 86400 IN CNAME host0001.subdomain2.domain. ;Cl=1

There are several strange things to me:

- There are two $origin sections for .
- there are actually two soa records, which are the problem for the DNS
server obviously.
- there are 14 NS records. I wonder if this could cause the problem, since
not more than 13 match in the udp packet....

Has anybody seen this before and has an idea by what the duplicated soa
records is caused.


Best Regards
Martin Schor