Bind 9.0.0 error "label too long"

[Andrew Fried]

I just attempted to upgrade to Bind 9.0.0.  Every time I invoke named it 
dies, stating that it encountered a "label too long" problem within the 
zone file.  A copy of my syslog files appear below.  Bind was compiled 
under Linux 2.2.17 and is running on a system with plenty of resources (800 
mHz, 512 mb RAM).

I've pretty much exhausted every idea I had to identify the source of the 
problem, including totally eliminating everything other than the SOA field 
from the RR, with no success.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Andrew Fried
afried at cis.fed.gov

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In my messages file, the following appears:

Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11213]: starting BIND 9.0.0
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: no IPv6 interfaces found
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: listening on IPv4 interface lo, 127.0.0.1#53
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: listening on IPv4 interface eth0, 
209.31.248.10#53

In my syslog file, the following appears:
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: dns_master_load: label too long
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: dns_zone_load: zone cis.fed.gov/IN: 
database db.cis: dns_db_load failed: label too long
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: loading zones: label too long
Sep 16 16:05:41 NS named[11215]: exiting (due to fatal error)