upgrading to 8.2.3 errors (i already RTFM)

[panderson at noteworthyms.com]

In attempt to help a friend's business upgrade to 8.2.3 from 8.2.2, I am getting
some errors which are contradictory to documentation and all the archived
messages and FAQs I have read.  Examples of named.conf and some zone files will
be at the bottom of this message.
Essentially, everything was running fine until I ran the 8.2.3 named.  Here is
an example of the error generated for db.127.0.0:
>part of syslog----------------------------------------
Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0: WARNING SOA expire value is less
than SOA refresh+retry (2 < 2+1)
Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:4: Database error near ()
Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:5: Database error near ()
Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0: Line 6: Unknown type: ).
Feb  6 11:29:59 pwpa named[13189]: db.127.0.0:6: Database error near ())
>------------------------------------------------------
The same errors were generated for all the other zones, which have the same
parenthetical use as db.127.0.0 (which is included at the bottom of this
message).
I knew when I started using BIND and read O'Reilly DNS and BIND that the first
parenthesis must be on the same line as the SOA.  I have maintained that
structure, and although 8.2.2 never complained, 8.2.3 will not load a single
zone.

Why does 8.2.3 give error messages as if the zones were not adhering to the new,
more strict parenthetical use?

Thanks for all the helpful archived messages

Peter Anderson

>db.127.0.0. ------------------------------------------------

@        IN SOA root.nw. (
20010206
10800
3600
604800
86400 )
;
                NS  127.0.0.1.

1               PTR localhost.

>-------------------------------------------------------------
>part of named.conf ------------------------------------------
options {
        directory "/var/named";
};

logging {
        category lame-servers { null; };
        category cname { null; };
};

zone "." in {
        type hint;
        file "db.cache";
};

zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" in {
        type master;
        file "db.127.0.0";
};
>--------------------------------------------------------------