our server (solaris, bind v 8.1.2) is suppose to be the authoritive or the master and our isp's server is suppose be the secondary. i've created a reverse lookup zone file and added an entry for it in my named.conf file. i've restarted the dns daemon and i don't have any errors in var/adm/messages, it says it's ready to answer queries. i tested it using network-tools site and it fails to do the reverse lookup. it says that there's no host name associated with the ip address or reverse lookup is not enabled. i'm thinking that i need to send a request for a zone transfer to our isp. i've done that a couple of days ago now and the reverse lookup still fails. what am i missing here? does my isp need to do something on their end? other than the zone transfer. is there another file besides the forward lookup, reverse lookup, named.local, and named.conf? i'm using O'Reilly's DNS and Bind book as my guide.