dns configuration help needed

[Bob Vance]

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.