[tanked]

Hello again, this is very odd...

I copied your zone file examples into mine and they worked fine. I then edited my zone files back to how they were when I was having the problem- and it now works!!

Here are the current contents of my zone files:

Forward zone:

$TTL 1h
@       IN SOA starburst.wes.internal. hostmaster.wes.internal. (
                       20080707 ; Serial
                       1d       ; Refresh
                       2h       ; Retry
                       1000h    ; Expire
                       2d       ; Minimum
                     )

                IN  NS  starburst.wes.internal.

starburst       IN  A   192.168.1.1

Reverse zone:

$TTL 1h
@ IN SOA  starburst.wes.internal. shostmaster.wes.internal. (
                       20080707 ; Serial
                       1d       ; Refresh
                       2h       ; Retry
                       1000h    ; Expire
                       2d       ; Minimum
                     )

                        IN   NS  starburst.wes.internal.

1    IN   PTR   starburst.wes.internal.

Take a look at them and compare them to the zone files I posted in my first post- I don't see a difference, do you? The only thing I can think of is that it is a spacing issue (I had spaces where I should -or shouldn't have). Either that or there was something named did not like about my original zone files themselves, as I created new zone files when I pasted your examples.