--- a/pvl/hosts.py	Tue Dec 17 17:31:41 2013 +0200
+++ b/pvl/hosts.py	Tue Dec 17 17:44:47 2013 +0200
@@ -130,7 +130,8 @@
 
     if config.sections :
         # recurse; this is a domain meta-section
-        params = dict(defaults, domain=name, **scalars)
+        params = dict(defaults, domain=name)
+        params.update(**scalars) # override
 
         for section in config.sections :
             for host in apply_hosts_config(options, config[section], section, params) :