Setup DNS in Snow Leopard HELP!!!!!!!

I would like to have step by step instructions on setting up DNS in Snow Leopard.
Now I can setup DNS in Leopard Server with my eye's closed, but SLS is giving me
trouble.
The only service I have running at present is DNS.
The problem is SLS what to enter in the nameservers zone field.
I am using readsrv for the server name, when setup asks for a dns name I entered macbook.com
So the final FQDNS should read readsrv.macbook.com.
Also how does the Reverse DNS setup in SLS ???
Leopard Server would automatically create this field, but I do not see this in SLS DNS Settings.
I get this error in terminal.
macbook:~ sls$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Primary address = 192.168.1.30
Current HostName = macbook.com
The DNS hostname is not available, please repair DNS and re-run this tool.
Thank you all in advance, please help me out.
Message was edited by: Mike Darland

Here, you'll want to get a registered domain or use something severely unlikely to get issued as a real domain (host.mikedarland or some other such domain), unless you're tied in with the folks that have the macbook.com domain registered. Folks are activating new top-level domains (TLDs) like .travel. I'll refer to the domain and the zone example.com here, as this is an RFC-preferred domain name for (duh) an example domain.
Get a good and restorable backup of your disk before you start.
Launch Server Admin.
Select the target server, select DNS, stop DNS.
Select Settings.
Select the forwarding server(s) as your upstream ISP DNS server(s).
Select Zones.
Clean out all of the zones you see there.
Add a forward primary zone for example.com. (note that trailing dot), and select the DNS server for that zone as 192.168.1.30 or whatever the address of your host. (And as an aside, I'd get out of 192.168.0.0/16 just as soon as I could manage it, as that messes up VPN routing if/when you get there.)
You'll get a reverse zone created gratis.
Add an A record for hostnames; here using "hostname".
For testing: aim one of your clients at the DNS server at 192.168.1.30 (or whatever the IP address) via explicit selection in Network Preferences or such. Aim dig hostname.example.com, and (presuming that kicks back an address), aim a dig -x w.y.y.z query to test the reverse translation.
After you have it all working, aim your clients at the box via explicit specification for via DHCP setting. Do not reference the ISP settings directly.

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