I apologize for the half-***ed post, but this was dumped on me because no one else go figure out why it wasn't working. I've very limited experience with bsd so I'm sorry for my ignorance.
Needless to say after reading your post I went looking around in our DNS server and finally came across the named.conf file. And guess what...it was being kept up to date on the acl for the routers.
So I updated the DNS names and the IP's and everything is working now.
See you are a mind reader you just needed some encouragment
Cheers and thanks again for the help.....next to time I'll be sure to post more info related to the topic in question.
Morty