DNS - NS entry on reverse lookup has changed - how to reset?

Hi,
When I view the DNS setup through the GUI in server admin everything looks as it should. However when I use Lookup in Network Utility there is a problem with the ns entry.
Using lookup on the servers FQDN (xserve.company.com) returns the correct NS entry, which is xserve.company.com. However when I query the servers IP address to perform a reverse lookup the NS entry shows ns.company.com
when I intially set up DNS all was checked and verified. Recently someone on site stopped some services and performed a hard reboot of the server as they thought it had frozen. Next time I came to the site to check things I noticed this NS entry discrepancy.
How do I or indeed can I get the NS entry on the reverse lookup back to xserve.company.com?
Thanks

Hi Jeff,
Config files in /var/named/zones appear to contain the incorrect NS entries
There are two files in the zones directory:
db.0.1.10.in-addr.arpa.zone.apple
**$TTL 10800**
**0.1.10.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA ns.company.com. admin.0.1.10.in-addr.arpa. (**
**2009031300 ;Serial**
**86400 ;Refresh**
**7200 ;Retry**
**2592000 ;Expire**
**345600 ;Negative caching TTL**
**0.1.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS ns.company.com.**
**10.0.1.10.in-addr.arpa. IN PTR xserve.company.com.**
**db.0.1.10.in-addr.arpa.zone.apple (END)**
and
db.company.com.zone.apple
$TTL 10800
company.com. IN +SOA xserve+ john.company.com (
2009042901 ;Serial
86400 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
345600 ;Negative caching TTL
company.com. IN +NS xserve+
xserve IN A 10.1.0.10
xserve IN HINFO "Apple XServe" "OSX Server 10.5.6"
db.company.com.zone.apple (END)
What I notice is that there are the incorrect NS entries in the reverse zone file but there are also differences in the forward zone file compared to another correctly working server - namely that in the above case the SOA and NS entry simply consist of the name xserve but on the other server these entries have the full domain name. (I italicized these entries so you know which I am referring to)
I guess my questions now are:
1) Should I go ahead and backup these files and edit the NS entries in the reverse zone file?
2) Should I also edit the forward zone file SOA and NS entries to the full domain name?
3) Should I stop the DNS service prior to making these changes and restart it afterwards or make the changes and then stop it and start it?
Thankyou very much for your patience and time.

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