Hello, As was suggested to me, I should read more about dns and thus I will. I found line 18 and deleted it, now Bind is not complaining anymore. I can now ping my nameservers locally and mx record locally, but cannot ping it via the actual net yet. I'll wait a day or 2 to see what happens. Thanks for the help on this list. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1283 - Release Date: 2/16/2008 2:16 PM