DNS not querying/ recognizing/ resolving internal domain name using nslookup

I've setup a virtual lab for practice purpose on VMware 8 workstation.
I have already asked this question in vm community but still got no answers hence asking it here.
In my vmware workstation 8, for practice lab purpose my setup is as follows:-
1] Win 2k8R2 Enetrprise edi.vm as my DC with DNS & DHCP configured and working perfect. DNS is getting resolved internally via NSLOOKUP. Server has manual ip assigned...192.168.1.xx series.
2] Win xp vm as my Client and getting dhcp lease address from the above DC and also the DNS is getting resolved internally via NSLOOKUP.
Now that these two vms are communicating perfectly with each other, I thought about connecting them to my physical internet.
So, in the Virtual network editor, I added a Host-only type network named
VMnet 04 with Use local dhcp service checkbook Disabled and on each of these vms, in network adapter settings, selected specific virtual network and pointed it to
VMnet 04 in both vms.
Now, in both the vms, an additional network connection got added and hence was successfully able to browse internet from both vms.
Now the REAL problem:--
After the above configuration, when I do NSLOOKUP on the DC, the DNS doesnt resolves external sites on the internet.
I havent specified any kind of conditional forwarding etc.., its a simple DNS setup.
I want it to resolve to the internal domain and also be connected to the internet .
What setting do I need to do in DNS or in VM network?
I tried almost all types of settings in vm virtual network editor by specifying dns manually and so on but none worked.

Sorry my bad.... slight mistake in my question...Here is my corercted query--
After successfully connecting to the internet, when I do NSLOOKUP on the DC, the DNS doesnt resolve my internal domain/site but instead resolves external sites on the internet.
My computer FQDN is nri.wwe.com
Domain dns name is wwe.com
The above should get resolve internally but it searches on the internet.
This is how it should work
& it works perfect when I disable the other NAT network adapter (i.e. disable internet connectivity on my virtual DC)
C:\>nslookup nri.wwe.com
Server: nri.wwe.com
Address: 192.168.1.11
Name:    nri.wwe.com
Address: 192.168.1.11
But when I again enable internet connectivity, this it what happens.
C:\nslookup www.wwe.com
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.12.2
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Non-authoritative answer:
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Name:    www.wwe.com.nsatc.net
Address: 64.152.0.124
Aliases: www.wwe.com
And when I again nslookup, this is what I get,
C:\>nslookup www.wwe.com
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.12.2
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out
Now this 192.168.12.2 is VM assigned DNS via VM Natting with its own DHCP. If we do it manually, none of the virtual machines can connect to the internet. So I cannot fiddle with it anymore as I have already that as well.

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DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
    timeout was 2 seconds.
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Since it's only used internally it won't have any impact on anyone outside of your network.
Similarly, if you really wanted to, you could call your own domain 'apple.com' and then have a hostname of basilisk.apple.com pointing to your machine. Of course, this would impact your ability to get to any other .apple.com hostname, so you might not want to do that, but it is possible.
As for the 'single word' question, by definition a hostname is a component of your domain which would mean that 'foo' isn't strictly valid, however, you can configure your machine (System Preferences -> Network -> TCP/IP -> Search Domains) to automatically append specific domain names to any lookup. If you set this to 'bar' then a lookup for 'foo' would automatically look up 'foo.bar' and you'd get the result you're looking for.
Finally, for now, there is no requirement to have 'www' as pointing to your web server. That's just a common convention used around the internet. It's just as valid to have fred.bar as your web server and barney.bar as your mail server if that's what you want.

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