Strange problem: some subzones are loaded, some are not

[Erik Rozendaal]

Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> We have a strange problem on our nsd secondary nameserver (the BIND9
> one is OK).
> 
> We have many subzones of ".fr" for the "notaires" (notaries?). Some
> work, some not.
> 
> You can test it yourself on ns2.nic.fr. "paris.notaires.fr" or
> "rhone.notaires.fr" work (you can query the SOA, you can ask
> subdomains and you get a NXDOMAIN is they do not exist),
> "aisne.notaires.fr" or "gironde.notaires.fr" does not work (you do not
> get a SOA, you do not get an authoritative reply when querying a
> subdomain).
> 
> In the nsd.zones, they are identical:
> 
> zone aisne.notaires.fr  secondary/aisne.notaires.fr  masters 192.93.0.1
> zone gironde.notaires.fr  secondary/gironde.notaires.fr  masters 192.93.0.1
> zone paris.notaires.fr  secondary/paris.notaires.fr  masters 192.93.0.1
> zone rhone.notaires.fr  secondary/rhone.notaires.fr  masters 192.93.0.1

Is the parent domain specified before the subdomains?  Otherwise the parent 
domain may override some information from the subdomain's zone files.

Erik