Questions

[Simon Waters]

Eric Gregory wrote:
> 
> ns.gatewayconnections.com is a forward A record for 192.168.0.136 and
> 192.168.0.136 has a reverse record pointing to ns.gatewayconnections.com .

Is the gatewayconnections.com zone held on the name server in
question? It isn't clear from your question.

> I do get DNS resolution if I try to resolve from the machine running bind.

Irrelevant, you want to test server function, not client
function. Client function and nslookup will depend on content of
/etc/resolv.conf, and may have nothing to do with the local copy
of BIND.

What does "dig @127.0.0.1 ns.gatewayconnections.com" show if
types on the nameserver?

You need to demonstrate named started and loaded zones first!

> When trying to use NSlookup even on the bind machine.  I'm sure that this is
> something to do with the reverse DNS for the IP address but how can I make
> it work, is it the fact that I'm using the reserved IP address that's
> causing the problem,

I doubt it.

Have you read the log file from start-up of named? Anything
interesting or unclear in that log?