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Just to elaborate on what RTM is telling you.

The PTR records are not a 'simple' list. The number preceeding the
IN PTR test.xpresstest.com.

is the least significant part of the ip address, if the ip is 10.10.10 then the number preceeding the IN should be 31.

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rtm was right on. thank you. i made the proper changes and all is well.
i had to redo my db.192.168.1 file (reverse lookup).

/var/named/db.192.168.1

test# more db.192.168.1
1.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN SOA test.test.com. root.test.test.com. (
2; Serial number
7200; Refresh timer
3600; Retry timer
604800; Expire after one week
86400; Minimum timer 1 day
)

1.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN NS test.test.com.

1.168.192.in-addr.arpa IN PTR test.test.com.

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