not reading new entries on bind 8.2.3

[Sherona Hoosen]

Hi
I am running bind8.2.3 on solaris 8.

ITs always been working fine, but recently no new entries are being read.
Its as if the entries haven't been put in.
ie I created the following entry
www.hrresearch  IN      CNAME   hermes.wits.ac.za.

Alookup for the entry after the server has been reloaded gives the following response
# nslookup
Default Server:  mail1.wits.ac.za
Address:  146.141.15.210

> www.hrresearch.wits.ac.za
Server:  mail1.wits.ac.za
Address:  146.141.15.210

*** mail1.wits.ac.za can't find www.hrresearch.wits.ac.za: Non-existent host/domain

Or using dig
; <<>> DiG 8.3 <<>> www.hrresearch.wits.ac.za 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 4
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; QUERY SECTION:
;;      www.hrresearch.wits.ac.za, type = A, class = IN

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
wits.ac.za.             2h59m30s IN SOA  mail1.wits.ac.za. admin.wits.ac.za. (
                                        2003101403      ; serial
                                        3H              ; refresh
                                        1H              ; retry
                                        2w6d            ; expiry
                                        3H )            ; minimum


;; Total query time: 27 msec
;; FROM: caesar to SERVER: default -- 146.141.15.210
;; WHEN: Tue Oct 28 10:05:44 2003
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 43  rcvd: 91Oct 28 10:11:13 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] reloading nameserver
Oct 28 10:11:13 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] reloading nameserver
Oct 28 10:11:16 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] witsstudent.wits.ac.za has CNAME and other data (invalid)
Oct 28 10:11:16 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] wits/wits.ac.za:832:witsstudent.wits.ac.za: CNAME and OTHER data error
Oct 28 10:11:16 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] wits/wits.ac.za:832:witsstudent.wits.ac.za: CNAME and OTHER data error
Oct 28 10:11:16 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] master zone "wits.ac.za" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 2003102706)
Oct 28 10:11:16 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] master zone "wits.ac.za" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 2003102706)
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] Forwarding source address is [0.0.0.0].36984
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] Ready to answer queries.
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] Ready to answer queries.
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] drained 167 queries (delay 5 sec)
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] drained 167 queries (delay 5 sec)
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] ns_resp: query(trend.med4.wits.ac.za) contains our address (mail1.wits.ac.za:146.141.15.210) learnt (A=196.4.160.17:NS=196.4.160.17)
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] secondary zone "ee.wits.ac.za" expired
Oct 28 10:11:18 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.notice] secondary zone "ee.wits.ac.za" expired
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.info] witsstudent.wits.ac.za has CNAME and other data (invalid)
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] wits/wits.ac.za:832:witsstudent.wits.ac.za: CNAME and OTHER data error
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] wits/wits.ac.za:832:witsstudent.wits.ac.za: CNAME and OTHER data error
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] master zone "wits.ac.za" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 2003102706)
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named[77]: [ID 295310 daemon.warning] master zone "wits.ac.za" (IN) rejected due to errors (serial 2003102706)
Oct 28 10:11:20 caesar named-xfer[8899]: [ID 140103 daemon.info] send AXFR query 0 to 146.141.16.134

According to log the serial number has error, but that is the format we have always been using with no problems.
Also we have a similar server (backup) using the same serial number with no problems.


Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks
Cheers
sherona

When reloading the files I get the following response