CNAME and other data -vs- could not find NS and/or SOA records

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I have a domain (several of them, actually) in which I need to CNAME them
to another domain (which is under someone else's authority).  So if I put
in a CNAME record, BIND gives this message in syslog and fails to load the
zone:

    CNAME and other data

The only other records were SOA and NS.  So when I remove them, BIND gives
this message in syslog and fails to load the zone:

    could not find NS and/or SOA records

So how do I bypass this conundrum?  Is there a way to force BIND to accept
the zone anyway?  Or is a patch to BIND source needed?  And if I have to
patch it, would it be better to force BIND to accept the zone with, or
without, the SOA/NS records (I would think with would be better).

Example zone "foo.example.com" hosted on "ns1.example.net" and
"ns2.example.net" with a CNAME target of "bar.example.org" where
"example.com" is under separate authority and delgates "foo.example.com"
to "ns1.example.net" and "ns2.example.net", and both "example.org" and
"bar.example.org" are under separate authority.

Example 1, with SOA and NS records:
=============================================================================
$TTL 10800
@                       SOA     ns1.example.net. dnsmaster.example.net. (
                                0               ; serial number
                                86400           ; sec refresh
                                3600            ; sec retry
                                3456000         ; sec expire
                                10800           ; cache TTL
                        )
@       10800   IN      NS      ns1.example.net.
@       10800   IN      NS      ns2.example.net.
@       10800   IN      CNAME   bar.example.org.
=============================================================================

Example 2, without SOA and NS records:
=============================================================================
$TTL 10800
@       10800   IN      CNAME   bar.example.org.
=============================================================================

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