NOTAUTH on dynamic update followed by approved update

[Hellige, Charles D]

We have been using nsupdate for some time without issue. We recently started seeing NOTAUTH failures in the named logs followed by successful adding/deleting messages. The records are getting created but there are times when we see several (NOTAUTH) errors before we finally get a successful message.

config  : zone "ops.company.com" { type master; file "/usr/local/etc/namedb/grn/fwd/ops.company.com.db"; allow-update { key "grn-mid";  }; };

11-Mar-2022 10:07:19.748 update: info: grn-mid: view GRN: updating zone 'ops.company.com/IN': update failed: not authoritative for update zone (NOTAUTH)
11-Mar-2022 10:07:19.821 update: info: grn-mid: view GRN: updating zone 'ops.company.com/IN': adding an RR at 'test-09.ops.company.com' A 1.1.1.9

Any hints on what I might be doing wrong would be greatly appreciated.

~Charles
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