Slave server unable to lookup external addresses

[John F. Blyberg]

Hi,

I just set up a slave server internally on our network, it copied down the
files from the primary fine, and I can look up internal addresses perfectly,
but anything outside of our lan does not work.  When I do an NSLOOKUP using
the slave server on an external ip or address, it returns:

(Normal lookup)
Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
Address:  10.23.11.21

*** Request to fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com timed-out

(Reverse lookup)
Server:  fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com
Address:  10.23.11.21

*** fishnchips.lotusengineeringinc.com can't find w.x.y.z: No response from
server

I'm wondering if I have an issue with authority?  Here are my config files,
as you can see, we have 3 subnets, 10.23.11.0, 10.23.21.0, 10.23.31.0.  Both
DNS servers reside in 10.23.11.0.

[/etc/named.boot]
directory /var/named
forwarders      10.23.11.21 10.23.11.21
cache           .                               db.cache
primary         0.0.127.in-addr.arpa            db.127.0.0
secondary       lotusengineeringinc.com
slave.lotusengineeringinc.com
secondary       11.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.11
secondary       21.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.21
secondary       31.23.10.in-addr.arpa           slave.10.23.31
secondary       marco.com                       slave.marco.com
slave

[/etc/named.conf]
options {
        directory "/var/named";
        query-source address * port 53;
};
zone "." {
        type hint;
        file "db.cache";
};
zone "0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type master;
        file "db.127.0.0";
};
zone "lotusengineeringinc.com"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.lotusengineeringinc.com";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};
zone "marco.com"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.marco.com";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};
zone "11.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.10.23.11";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};
zone "21.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.10.23.21";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};
zone "31.23.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.10.23.31";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};
zone "128.158.207.IN-ADDR.ARPA"{
        type slave;
        file "slave.207.158.128";
        masters {10.23.11.5;};
};

[/etc/resolv.conf]
domain lotusengineering.com
search com
nameserver 10.23.11.21                         # I've tried pointing this to
the primary too


I'm close, but oh so far, any help would be appreciated, thanks

John.