Thanks ifincham,
btw- I finally have my dns and webserver running. Seems that the problem was with my isp all along. I don't fully understand what the problem was, all they told me was that there was a problem with there cache server. Oh'well they are going to compensate me with a free month anyway and everthing is running fine.
My next challenge is setting up my slave box ns2.
So off I go.