DNS, HTTPD & POP

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Hi All, I'm trying to get a few things working, but I'm beginning to
wonder if they are
inter-related and being affected by the same problem.

1) I'm attempting to setup DNS on a small LAN with three PC's:
    199.1.1.1 - NT Server box
    199.1.1.2 - Linux
    199.1.1.3 - Win 98 client

     199.1.1.2 is the linux box, where DNS is hosted, my domain name is
      abdelsoft.com,

      I followed the example given in the Network Administrator's Guide,
but
      I can't get it to work. After completing the entires for the
named.ca, named.hosts,
      named.rev and named.local files I stop named via ".
./etc/rc.d/init.d/named stop"
      and restart via. ". ./etc/rc.d/init.d/named start".

      At this stage I get no error messages, however when I type
"nslookup" to
      test, I get the following error message:

      "*** Can't find server name for address 199.1.1.2: Server failed"
      "*** Default servers are not available"

2) When I try to start the http daemon, I get the followin error
message:
     "httpd: cannot determine local host name."
     "Use ServerName to set it manually."

     What does this mean and could it be what's affecting my DNS setup?

3) I loaded the IMAP RPM and set up a user, sent him some mail, and
fired up
    Netscape Messenger, I set up a POP account, I could only get mail,
when I try
    to send mail to another user on the Linux box, I get the following
error message:

    First it tries to contact the host machine (199.1.1.2), this takes a
while and then
    I get the usual:

    "There was no response. The server could be down or is not
responding."
    "If you are unable to connect again later, contact the server's
administrator."



This is a bit lengthy, but I was up until 3:00 last night trying to
figure this out, I suspect that the three problems are inter-related.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ahbaid.