Dig 9.9 FORMERR with NetWare

[Pascal]

Dig 9.9 consistently gives me "FORMERR" against NetWare DNS servers. 
Previous versions worked fine.  Suggestions on how to figure out if the 
bug is in Dig or NetWare?

-Pascal


O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig>dig www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6

; <<>> DiG 9.8.4-P2 <<>> www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 49616
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.alarmspecs.com.            IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.alarmspecs.com.     3600    IN      CNAME   alarmspecs.com.
alarmspecs.com.         3600    IN      A       173.212.225.56

;; Query time: 203 msec
;; SERVER: 172.31.123.6#53(172.31.123.6)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 16 20:24:24 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 66


O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig>cd 9.9.2-P2

O:\Documents and Settings\admin\dig\9.9.2-P2>dig www.alarmspecs.com 
@172.31.123.6

; <<>> DiG 9.9.2-P2 <<>> www.alarmspecs.com @172.31.123.6
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: FORMERR, id: 47614
;; flags: qr rd ra ad; QUERY: 0, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 172.31.123.6#53(172.31.123.6)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 16 20:24:29 2013
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 12


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