Can't resolve local domain

[MikeDawg]

Hi, this is sort of a newbish type question, and I can't figure out
what is going on with my local domain.  I'm also not 100% sure if this
problem is related to my Bind DNS setup, or whether it is a problem
with how I got my windows networking setup, hopefully someone will be
able to tell me one or the other.

I have bind running on my linux box, and I have setup a local domain
"xxxx.sys" in bind.

In bind, I have to zone files setup.

One is for 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa, in the named.conf file showing:

zone "1.168.192.in-addr.arpa" IN {
        type master;
        file "primary/1.168.192.in-addr.arpa";
        allow-update {
                192.168.1.0/24;
                };
        allow-query {
                192.168.1.0/24;
                127.0.0.0/8;
                localhost;
                };
        notify no;
};

One is for the xxxx.sys domain, setup in the named.conf file showing:

zone "xxxx.sys" IN {
        type master;
        file "primary/xxxx.sys";
        allow-update {
                192.168.1.0/24;
                };
        allow-query {
                192.168.1.0/24;
                localhost;
                127.0.0.0/8;
                };
};

The contents of 1.168.192.in-addr.arpa is the following:

$TTL 3D
@                       IN      SOA     ns.xxxx.sys.
hostmaster.xxxx.sys. (
                        2006041901
                        8H
                        2H
                        4W
                        1D )
;
xxxx.sys.            IN      MX      10 mail.xxxx.sys.    ;Mail Server
router.xxxx.sys.     IN      A       192.168.1.1    ;DD-WRT
slacker2.xxxx.sys.   IN      A       192.168.1.9    ;Slacker2
melement.xxxx.sys.   IN      A       192.168.1.8    ;Melissa
bad-ath64.xxxx.sys.  IN      A       192.168.1.2    ;Bad-Ath64
slacker.xxxx.sys.    IN      A       192.168.1.7    ;Slacker
firewall.xxxx.sys.   IN      CNAME   router.xxxx.sys.     ;Firewall and
Router
ns.xxxx.sys.         IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Name Server
mail.xxxx.sys.       IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Mail Server
ns1.xxxx.sys.        IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;Name Server
1
www.xxxx.sys.        IN      CNAME   slacker2.xxxx.sys.   ;www
bad-ath.xxxx.sys.    IN      CNAME   melement.xxxx.sys.   ;melement's
old name
xxxx.sys.            IN      NS      ns.xxxx.sys.         ;Name Server
xxxx.sys.            IN      NS      ns1.xxxx.sys.        ;Name Server
1

-- END CONFIGURATION FILES --

When I try to ping mail.xxxx.sys from my windows machine (192.168.1.2 &
192.168.1.8) it cannot find the IP address.

I can run nslookup using 192.168.1.9 as the server, and successfully do
an IP lookup on mail.xxxx.sys

I definetely have the NS server for the network card set to
192.168.1.9, verified using ipconfig /all and looking at the list of
DNS servers allowed for the NIC.  When I try pinging various servers
from the linux machine, that is also running dns (192.168.1.9) I can
ping any server on the domain. . . such as bad-ath64.xxxx.sys and it
finds the IP address just fine.

Bind starts up just fine, loads the proper xxxx.sys file, and the
correct serial number for the zone that I set.

What am I doing wrong here?  Is this a problem with bind? Or is this a
problem with my windows networking configuration?

Thanks for the help!