DNS packet querry

[Sumit Mehrotra]

Hi

I am trying to set up a DNS, for a webserver running on my machine. The objective is, ofr it to act as the Primary DNS for the resolution of my machine name. I
have set up bind and configured everything.
The problem is that an nslookup for my machine name is forwarded to the "forwarders", i.e the NS of the domain my machine is part of. This results in the query
getting the correct IP, even if I set up a `bogus' IP for my machine in the /etc/hosts file on my machine ( the order of search for the DNS on my machine is /etc/hosts and then nameserver).

Any solutions ? Do I have to set some things up in the DNS of the domain, my machine is part of?

Thanks

- Sumit