Hi. I'm trying to create an internal DNS server for my network. But i've got a few bugs. This is my named.conf:
zone "example.com" {
type master;
file "example.zone";
allow-query { any; };
};

zone "1.6.192.in-appr.arpa" {
type master;
notify no;
file "192-6-1.zone";
allow-update { none; };
};

My example.zone file in /var/named:
$TTL 8H
@ IN SOA server1.example.com. webmaster.example.com. (
2003070300 ; serial
8H ; refresh
2H ; retry
1W ; expiry
2D ) ; minimum
;
NS server1.example.net.

My 192-6-1.zone file in /var/named:
$TTL 2D
@ IN SOA server1.example.com. webmaster.example.com. (
2003070300 ; serial
1D ; refresh
2H ; retry
1W ; expire
2D ) ; minimum
;
NS server1.example.com.


When i do a host server1.example.com command, it comes up with a error:
can't find server1.example.com: Server failed

Even when you do a nslookup from a windows box it gives me an error:
*** Can't find server name for address 192.6.1.2: No response from server
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.6.1.2

>

I can't seem to get my DNS server to work. Could any one please tell me what am I doing wrong. Please Help?

If that is your entire named.conf, those few lines, then I would start there. I don't know if bind auto defaults to looking for files in /var/named or not.