Lion DNS Server not answering reverse IP queries

I just upgraded my server to 10.7 lion. Everything works great, except that the DNS sever will not answer queries about reverse IPs. Interestingly OD isn't affected yet though as I add more replicas I'm afraid that problems might start cropping up.
Queries for forward zones work fine. Reverse zones don't
I tried restoring from backup without luck.
I found a directory called "/etc/dns.migrated-2011-08-06-002722" with the standard "loggingOptions.conf.apple", "options.conf.apple" and publicView.conf.apple.
I checked another server that was also upgraded to Lion, the DNS service is running (it only has the original DNS name of the server when it was set up) and it shows the same symptoms; forward zone works, reverse doesn't.
Has anyone seen this? Any tips for "fixing" my 200+ IP addr zones?

I've got this problem, too. I've tried a few things that have not worked.
1. importing a plist from another working (SL) DNS server. The zones all get imported, including reverse; however, the reverse zones are missing their nameservers. After I fill in all ~50 rev zone NS entries (it validates to make sure they are all filled in), it looses all of its data. All that time I spent is wasted.
I've tried this on my backup server with a fresh lion/admintools install and again after software update
2. I've deleted /etc/named.conf and /etc/dns/db.* and placed a fresh named.conf in /etc
added one reverse zone, setting its NS. same thing.
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