I'm have a FreeBSD box running BIND9 to provide caching internet DNS queries but also to provide DNS for our imaginary internal domain (shocknet.all). Now, I've got the forwarding working so I look for www.bbc.co.uk it resolves correctly as does the reverse. If I do my lookup for andymlaptop.shocknet.all it resolves to 192.168.1.10. Now here's the problem if I try to do a lookup on 192.168.1.10 it fails.........

included here are the configurations files....


================named.conf====================

options
{
directory "/etc/namedb";

listen-on
{
127.0.0.1;
192.168.1.1;
};

//forward only;

forwarders
{
10.0.0.2;
};
};

zone "shocknet.all"
{
type master;
file "shocknet.all";
};

zone "."
{
type hint;
file "named.root";
};

zone "1.168.192.IN_ADDR.ARPA"
{
type master;
file "1.168.192.in_addr.arpa";
};

zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"
{
type master;
file "localhost.rev";
};


==============shocknet.all====================

$TTL 3600

shocknet.all. IN SOA ns1.shocknet.all. admin.shockradio.co.uk (
1
10800
3600
604800
86400 )

;DNS Servers
@ IN NS ns1.shocknet.all.

;Machine Names

localhost IN A 127.0.0.1
ns1 IN A 192.168.1.1
andymlaptop IN A 192.168.1.10

;Aliases
www IN CNAME @

;MX Record
@ IN MX 10 ns1.shocknet.all.

==============1.168.192.inn_addr.arpa====================

$TTL 3600

@ IN SOA ns1.shocknet.all. admin.shockradio.co.uk (
20030615
3600
900
3600000
3600 )

;DNS Servers
IN NS ns1.shocknet.all.

;Machine Names

1 IN PTR brendan.shocknet.all.
10 IN PTR andymlaptop.shocknet.all.

======================named.root========================

;
; formerly NIC.NORDU.NET
;
;
; $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/named.root,v 1.9.2.1 2002/11/06 09:24:12 dougb Exp $
;

; This file holds the information on root name servers needed to
; initialize cache of Internet domain name servers
; (e.g. reference this file in the "cache . <file>"
; configuration file of BIND domain name servers).
;
; This file is made available by InterNIC
; under anonymous FTP as
; file /domain/named.root
; on server FTP.INTERNIC.NET
;
; last update: Nov 5, 2002
; related version of root zone: 2002110501
;
;
; formerly NS.INTERNIC.NET
;
. 3600000 IN NS A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.41.0.4
;
; formerly NS1.ISI.EDU
;
. 3600000 NS B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
B.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.9.0.107
;
; formerly C.PSI.NET
;
. 3600000 NS C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
C.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.33.4.12
;
; formerly TERP.UMD.EDU
;
. 3600000 NS D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
D.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.8.10.90
;
; formerly NS.NASA.GOV
;
. 3600000 NS E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
E.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.203.230.10
;
; formerly NS.ISC.ORG
;
. 3600000 NS F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.5.5.241
;
; formerly NS.NIC.DDN.MIL
;
. 3600000 NS G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
G.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.112.36.4
;
; formerly AOS.ARL.ARMY.MIL
;
. 3600000 NS H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
H.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 128.63.2.53
;
; formerly NIC.NORDU.NET
;
. 3600000 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.36.148.17
;
; operated by VeriSign, Inc.
;
. 3600000 NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.58.128.30
;
; housed in LINX, operated by RIPE NCC
;
. 3600000 NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 193.0.14.129
;
; operated by IANA
;
. 3600000 NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.32.64.12
;
; housed in Japan, operated by WIDE
;
. 3600000 NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 202.12.27.33
; End of File
(END)

==========localhost.rev===============


. 3600000 NS I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
I.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.36.148.17
;
; operated by VeriSign, Inc.
;
. 3600000 NS J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 192.58.128.30
;
; housed in LINX, operated by RIPE NCC
;
. 3600000 NS K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
K.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 193.0.14.129
;
; operated by IANA
;
. 3600000 NS L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 198.32.64.12
;
; housed in Japan, operated by WIDE
;
. 3600000 NS M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. 3600000 A 202.12.27.33
; End of File

================localhost.rev==============================

; From: @(#)localhost.rev 5.1 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
; $FreeBSD: src/etc/namedb/PROTO.localhost.rev,v 1.6 2000/01/10 15:31:40 peter E
xp $
;
; This file is automatically edited by the `make-localhost' script in
; the /etc/namedb directory.
;

$TTL 3600

@ IN SOA brendan.salford.ac.uk. root.brendan.salford.ac.uk. (
20030615 ; Serial
3600 ; Refresh
900 ; Retry
3600000 ; Expire
3600 ) ; Minimum
IN NS brendan.salford.ac.uk.
1 IN PTR localhost.
2 IN PTR monkey.
~
~
~
~
(END)


Any ideas?
_________________________
Cheers,

Andy M