DNS Server not working. Start Time "Not Available"

Question

I lost power to my server last night in a power outage.
Today the DNS Server doesn't seem to be working. I verified that my server's IP is the primary name server on the clients, however all lookups are going to the secondary (public) name server and therefore giving the public IP address for LAN services.
To test it, I typed in Terminal (both on a client machine and on the server itself) "nslookup [myinternaldomain.com] [mydnsserverip]" and get ";; connection timed out; no servers could be reached"
When I load up Server Admin, I see that the DNS service is running but for Start Time it says "Not Available".
Tried stopping and starting the service.

Answer 1

Thanks for that link. It looks about at my level so I'll have a read tonight. I am on 10.6.8
Here's what I got back from the command you suggested (looks like all of these are just ports starting with "53" - confirming that DNS is not running?)
mDNSRespo    36 _mdnsresponder    8u  IPv4 0xffffff800fe25980      0t0    UDP *:5353
mDNSRespo    36 _mdnsresponder    9u  IPv6 0xffffff800fe25840      0t0    UDP *:5353
mDNSRespo    36 _mdnsresponder   50u  IPv4 0xffffff8012030c00      0t0    UDP *:53697
mDNSRespo    36 _mdnsresponder   51u  IPv6 0xffffff8012030340      0t0    UDP *:53697
Python       50        _jabber    4u  IPv4 0xffffff8012cc4da8      0t0    TCP localhost:49277->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
Python       75        _jabber    3u  IPv4 0xffffff8010120a08      0t0    TCP localhost:49177->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
resolver    406        _jabber    4u  IPv4 0xffffff8012970418      0t0    TCP localhost:49172->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
sm          407        _jabber    5u  IPv4 0xffffff80129727b8      0t0    TCP localhost:49170->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber    4u  IPv4 0xffffff80127621c8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347 (LISTEN)
router      408        _jabber    5u  IPv4 0xffffff80127615e8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49166 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber    6u  IPv4 0xffffff8012760a08      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49167 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber    7u  IPv4 0xffffff80127627b8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49168 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber    8u  IPv4 0xffffff80129721c8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49170 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber    9u  IPv4 0xffffff8012abfda8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49172 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber   10u  IPv4 0xffffff8012abe5e8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49177 (ESTABLISHED)
router      408        _jabber   11u  IPv4 0xffffff8012cc47b8      0t0    TCP localhost:5347->localhost:49277 (ESTABLISHED)
c2s         409        _jabber    4u  IPv4 0xffffff8012760ff8      0t0    TCP localhost:49167->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
mu-confer   410        _jabber    6u  IPv4 0xffffff8011d14a08      0t0    TCP localhost:49168->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)
s2s         411        _jabber    4u  IPv4 0xffffff8012761bd8      0t0    TCP localhost:49166->localhost:5347 (ESTABLISHED)