OSX Server DNS Setup

Question

Hi Folks,
I am hoping someone out there can assist as its almost 2AM and I am still trying to get this thing working. I have a MacMini running OSX Server. I have 5 Mac Clients on my network and the purpose is basic file sharing, iCal, Address Book etc etc. I want to have a Local DNS service to resolve names on the LAN and have it forwarded to my ISP to resolve those its not authorative about.
I have configured the server to the point where it will:
- Resolve DNS queries from clients for addresses it is not authorative about by using the forward DNS servers.
- Resolve reverse queries eg: nslookup 192.168.1.100 (fixed ip for my srvmacmini)
But it will not resolve local hostnames, for example:
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$ nslookup 192.168.1.100
Server: 192.168.1.100
Address: 192.168.1.100#53
100.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = srvmacmini.anthonywatson.net.au.
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$ nslookup srvmacmini
Server: 192.168.1.100
Address: 192.168.1.100#53
** server can't find srvmacmini: NXDOMAIN
Looking into the logs which I have set into debug mode, I can see the following:
<truncated>/IN/com.apple.ServerAdmin.DNS.public: has no NS records
Now - I have tried recreating the zone entries, I can see them listed in /var/named/zones in the right db.* files and have walked through that configuration.
I have set the DNS entry for the server itself to 127.0.0.1 and numerous other suggestions I have seen in the posts here but just cannot seem to get this working.
Am hoping the guru's here can assist - ready and willing to trawl through logs etc if more info is needed. I can see others have had this problem but cannot seem to find the post where it got resolved in a way I could repeat the same steps.
Cheers

Answer 1

Looks like this ones not yet solved - I change the DHCP server from 127.0.0.1 to 192.168.1.100 and renewed the lease to refresh the settings:
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$ hostname
watsonad-mbpro.anthonywatson.net.au
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$ nslookup watsonad-mbpro
Server: 192.168.1.100
Address: 192.168.1.100#53
** server can't find watsonad-mbpro: NXDOMAIN
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$ nslookup 192.168.1.16
Server: 192.168.1.100
Address: 192.168.1.100#53
16.1.168.192.in-addr.arpa name = watsonad-MBPro.anthonywatson.net.au.
watsonad-mbpro:~ watsonad$
So here are the zone entries, now these have all been created by server admin utility - below is the db.anthonywatson.et.au.zone.apple file , the one in the "named" directory points to this one of course:
;GUID=3B5D7974-F072-4F38-B319-76FCFB4CCF1E
;selfResolvingHostname=0
$TTL 10800
anthonywatson.net.au. IN SOA 127.0.0.1 Anthony.anthonywatson.net.au (
2011012912 ;Serial
86400 ;Refresh
3600 ;Retry
604800 ;Expire
345600 ;Negative caching TTL
anthonywatson.net.au IN NS 127.0.0.1
watsons-imac.anthonywatson.net.au IN A 192.168.1.51
watsons-imac.anthonywatson.net.au IN HINFO "iMac 27" "OSX Snow Leopard"
watsonad-MBPro.anthonywatson.net.au IN A 192.168.1.16
watsonad-MBPro.anthonywatson.net.au IN HINFO "Macbook Pro 13" "OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard"
srvmacmini.anthonywatson.net.au. IN A 192.168.1.100
srvmacmini.anthonywatson.net.au. IN HINFO "Mac Mini" "MAC OSX Server 10.6"
watsontm-MBPro.anthonywatson.net.au IN A 192.168.1.26
watsontm-MBPro.anthonywatson.net.au IN HINFO "13 Macbook Pro" "OSX Snow Leopard"
lb.dns-sd.udp IN PTR anthonywatson.net.au.
b.dns-sd.udp IN PTR anthonywatson.net.au.