Failed zone transfers

[anthony person]

I receive the error messages of " bad zone transfer request, non-authoritive
zone (NOTAUTH). I can do the transfers from the nslookup prompt on the
localhost, but when I try it from the nslookup prompt of another host
setting my server to that nameserver address it fails with the output of :
17.48.47.IN-ADDR.ARPA.         SOA   rtpbind.rtp.arris-i.com
root.rtpbind.rtp.arris-i.com. (2001031607 10800 3600 604800 86400)
*** Can't list domain 17.48.47.IN-ADDR.ARPA: Unspecified error

Any assistance will be greatly appreciated.

Anthony