Your editor perhaps left off a newline. Which editor did you use?
You can use the ORIGIN statement to your advantage - that's its purpose. See the difference:
Code:
$TTL 86400
$ORIGIN springsnet.com.
@ IN SOA star root (
2008052401 ; serial
10800 ; refresh after 3 hours
3600 ; retry after 1 hour
604800 ; Expire after 1 week
86400 ) ; Minimum TTL of 1 day
@ IN NS star
@ IN MX 10 star
@ IN A 192.168.0.15
mail IN CNAME star
ns IN CNAME star
dns IN CNAME star
www IN CNAME star
smtp IN CNAME star
popd IN CNAME star
pop IN CNAME star
Try and od -bc on your zones/springs.db file. Show the last line of its output.