In >;zone for lrxms.net ... >localhost. IN A 127.0.0.1 ... >n3byy.lrxms.net. IN A 216.254.20.117 Get rid of the period on "localhost". This is defining a host in the root domain, not lrxms.net. and, therefore, is "out-of-zone" data -- that should show up as an error in syslog. Without the period, you're defining localhost.lrxms.net.