Why is BIND responding with 2 SOA records???

[Mark.Andrews at iengines.com]

	Install named-xfer from BIND 8.2.2-P5.  You have named-xfer
	from BIND 8.2.2-P3 installed.

	BIND 8.2.2-P3 accidently wrote the second SOA record at the end
	of a zone transfer to the master file..

	Mark

> Hello,
> 
>         I have two nameservers setup with one as the primary and one as the
>         secondary for a number of zones.  Until just a few days ago, 
>         everything was running smoothly on BIND 8.2.2P5.  I updated a zone
>         file on the primary server and restarted the secondary so that it 
>         would pull a fresh copy.  The secondary did receive the updated data,
>         but it left an error message in the syslog:
> 
> Dec  9 15:22:45 mail named[3771]: Zone "manteca.net" (file slave/manteca.net)
> : 
> multiple SOA RRs found
> Dec  9 15:22:45 mail named[3771]: slave zone "manteca.net" (IN) rejected due 
> to errors (serial 1999100800)
> 
>         I checked the zone file format and found it to be correct, only one
>         SOA record.  I then erased all of the data files on the secondary
>         server and restarted named to find out if any other zones were having
>         the same problem.  All of them were rejected, even those that I 
>         haven't touched for months.  I had a closer look using nslookup and
>         queried the primary for an SOA record for any domain, and here's
>         what I got:
> 
> > ls -t SOA manteca.net
> [ns1.valleyip.net]
> $ORIGIN manteca.net.
> @                       1D IN SOA       ns1.valleyip.net. dns.valleyip.net. (
>                                         1999100800      ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
> 
>                         1D IN SOA       ns1.valleyip.net. dns.valleyip.net. (
>                                         1999100800      ; serial
>                                         3H              ; refresh
>                                         1H              ; retry
>                                         1W              ; expiry
>                                         1D )            ; minimum
> 
>         Am I missing something in the configuration file?  Has anyone else
>         ever seen this?  Any help will be very greatly appreciated.
> 
>         Thank you,
>         ~brian
> 
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