Linux DNS server installation problem

[Neetu]

Hello Friends,

I am new to linux world and setting a DNS server at my home pc

I have done the setting in named.conf, and created the zone files etc

while doing the nslookup for the domain I have following error
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Got SERVFAIL reply from "IP ADDRESS" trying next server
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Please help me out fro this issue

Neetu

[Lazydog]

What command are you using to lookup your domain? Full command please.
Is the machine you are doing the lookups from a linux or Windows system?

If Linux then please post the output from the following command:

cat /etc/resolv.conf

If it is a windows machine then post the output from the following command:

ipconfig/all

What is the ip address of the DNS server you setup?
Do you have a firewall running on the dns server? If yes is port 53 open?
On the dns system please post the output from the following command:

service named status

How did you install/setup DNS?

[sed_addictive]

In addition to steps posted by LazyDog, provide the output from below command

# dig FQDN of your machine - eg. if your system FQDN is system1.example.com
command must be
# dig system1.example.com