9.6.1-P1 zone parser false errors

[Sam Wilson]

In article <mailman.840.1256941695.14796.bind-users at lists.isc.org>,
 Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:

> As I recall, named-checkzone calls out to the operating system stub  
> resolver to look up these names. Is there any way the stub resolver  
> could be getting different data? Is there anything in the stub  
> resolver config (/etc/{hosts,resolv.conf}) that might explain this?  
> What do you get if you use 'host' to look up one of these mailhost  
> names?

And if you're using a system with an nsswitch.conf file or equivalent, 
what does that say?

Sam