Even More DNS questions

[Ahbaid Gaffoor <ahbaidg guyana net gy>]

Firstly,

Jose, thanks for all of your help, it has pointed me in the right
direction...

Okay... that said...

I gave up in frustration and deleted all of /var/named and my named.boot
file...

then I started over...

I set the hostname and domainname to "linux.abdelsoft.com" and
"abdelsoft.com"
respectively.

That done I setup my db.abdelsoft, db.cache, db.199.1.1.1 and db.127.0.0
files.

I actually ended up with a lot of progress...

nslookup works to lookup names as in "nslookup 199.1.1.2" returns

Server: linux.abdelsoft.com
Address: 199.1.1.2

Name: linux.abdelsoft.com
Address: 199.1.1.2

This works for the other two machines as well as the loopback address on
my lan, the other two machines are AHBAID 199.1.1.1 and COMPAQ 199.1.1.3

however (you knew this was coming), I can't lookup as in "nslookup
ahbaid", I get the following error when I try this:

Server:  linux.abdelsoft.com
Address: 199.1.1.2

*** linux.abdelsoft.com can't find ahbaid: Server failed

I have double and triple checked my db.abdelsoft and named.boot files
and they seem correct, what am I doing wrong here?

All the periods are in the write places, I used no tabs....

Please help, I'm very close to finishing this except for this
problem....

I would appreciate any help whatsoever....

For reference I have included the contents of my db.abdelsoft file and
db.199.1.1 file

thanks,

Ahbaid.

db.abdelsoft file contents
---------------

abdelsoft.com. IN SOA linux.abdelsoft.com. ahbaidg.linux.abdelsoft.com.
(
                           1                  ; serial
                           10800              ; refresh after 3 hours
                           3600               ; retry after 1 hour
                           604800             ; expire after 1 week
                           86400 )            ; min TTL of 1 day

;
; Name Servers
;
                                IN NS     linux.abdelsoft.com.

;
; Addresses for the canonical names
;
localhost.abdelsoft.com.        IN A      127.0.0.1
ahbaid.abdelsoft.com.           IN A      199.1.1.1
linux.abdelsoft.com.            IN A      199.1.1.2
compaq.abdelsoft.com.           IN A      199.1.1.3

db.199.1.1 file contents
------------------------

2.1.199.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA linux.abdelsoft.com.
ahbaidg.linux.abdelsoft.com. (
                                    1           ; serial
                                    10800       ; refresh after 3 hours
                                    3600        ; retry after 1 hour
                                    604800      ; expire after 1 week
                                    86400 )     ; min TTL of 1 day

;
; Name Servers
;

1.1.199.in-addr.arpa.             IN NS linux.abdelsoft.com.


;
; Addresses point to Canonical names
;

1.1.1.199.in-addr.arpa.           IN PTR ahbaid.abdelsoft.com.
2.1.1.199.in-addr.arpa.           IN PTR linux.abdelsoft.com.
3.1.1.199.in-addr.arpa.           IN PTR compaq.abdelsoft.com.