I have setup bind9 according to this site: 


I used these items:
domain:  sias.co.cc
ip address: 192.168.101.163
This is NIC facing my comcast access.
There is another NIC that can connect up workstations for the domain.
None connected yet.

hostname of server pacslinux
other workstations not in use yet: pc www and ?
I just typed in some ip addresses for these workstations (...165 & ...166)

for gateway, I used my main gateway ip
192.168.101.1


Here is output of nslookup and dig

rich@pacslinux:~$ nslookup pacslinux
Server:		192.168.101.163
Address:	192.168.101.163#53

** server can't find pacslinux: NXDOMAIN

rich@pacslinux:~$ dig sias.co.cc

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> sias.co.cc
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 5262
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;sias.co.cc.			IN	A

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.101.163#53(192.168.101.163)
;; WHEN: Tue Apr 19 12:32:17 2011
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 28

rich@pacslinux:~$ 


Can anyone make suggestions of fixing / improving /etc to what I've done so far ?

Here is contents of /etc/bind/zones/sias.co.cc.db
===========
$TTL 3D
@ IN SOA ns.sias.co.cc. admin.sias.co.cc. (
   2007062001
   28800
   3600
   604800
   38400
);
sias.co.cc.  IN      NS         ns.sias.co.cc.
pacslinux    IN      A          192.168.101.165
www            IN      CNAME      pacslinux
pc             IN      A          192.168.101.166
gw             IN      A          192.168.101.1
                       TXT        "Network Gateway"
=============================