hi anand,
Perhaps during the DDoS, the BIND secondary received a
corrupt IXFR that
added a new RRSIG, but didn't delete the old one? If that's the case, the
old RRSIG will persist until you force AXFR; it's the only way to overwrite
the zone fully at the secondary. You can set "provide-ixfr: no" for this
zone, and reload the configuration and then re-sign the zone with "knotc
zone-sign <zone>". Once the secondary is corrected, you can remove the
"provide-ixfr" option to go back to the default of providing IXFR.
bingo!!!
thank you
randy