BIND servfail

[Va Cager]

I installed BIND-9.1.1 on my linux server.

Basically, the server does not answer queries for any domain that is a soa
for. It will resolve any other domain until the cows buy homes. I have
followed everything in the BIND book from O'Reilly and I am very perplexed.

named-checkconfig yields only that the auth for nxdomain is no and the
named-check for the zones that I load as master yields that the ttl is not
there.......
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the resolv.conf points to search: mydomain.com
nameserver 0.0.0.0
nameserver 129.250.35.250
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the host.conf : order hosts,bind multi on
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named.conf is:
// generated by named-bootconf.pl

options {
        directory "/var/named";
        pid-file "named.pid";
        allow-query { any; };
        /*
         * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
         * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
         * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
         * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
         * port by default.
         */
        // query-source address * port 53;
};

//
// a cache nameserver config
//

zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "named.ca";
};
zone "0.0.127.in-addr.arpa" {
        type master;
        file "named.local";
};
zone "businessmonkey.com" {
        type master;
        file "businessmonkey.com.db";
};
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and the .db is:
@ IN SOA businessmonkey.com. root.businessmonkey.com. (
   20010031302
   8H
   2H
   1W
   1D )


   NS ns1.businessmonkey.com.
   NS ns2.slush.org.
   NS ns100.businessmonkey.com

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So, there it is. I have no idea why it is not working. None.

I appreciate any and all help from this group!

TIA!

Patrick Jones