Another AIX DNS bug?

[Charles Derykus]

Has anyone encountered the following bad scenario on AIX:

Our caching only nameserver running on an RS6000, rev 3005 has started to
mis-load consistently.

****************  named.boot is below: ****************

; named.boot
;
domain ca.boeing.com
primary 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa	/etc/named.local
;
forwarders	128.207.254.223 128.207.254.44 136.240.1.21
;
$INCLUDE /etc/named.hosts
;
cache	.	/etc/named.ca

*****************  end of named.boot ************************


Running named in debug provides the following significant stanzas:
------------------------------------------------------------------
db_load(/etc/named.local, 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, 1)
...
db_load(named.hosts, 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, 1)
db_load: error opening file named.hosts
...
------------------------------------------------------------------

It appears to have stripped the full pathname from /etc/named.hosts and
goes blind trying to find it.

Does anyone have any theories or know if this has been DIR'ed yet?
Any info greatly sought and appreciated.

Charles DeRykus				Internet:   ced at bcstec.boeing.com
Boeing Computer Services		UUCP:	    ...!uunet!bcstec!ced
Renton, WA.  M/S 6R-37			(206) 234-9223