DNS Issues

Hi,
Very new when it comes to setting up mac servers - or servers in general for that matter...

Trying to set up an old-ish G5 Server with 10.4.11 installed and fully patched up. I've managed to get the server on our windows network and can ping it etc by it's IP address. However, I cannot ping it by it's DNS name. The server isn't acting as DNS itself, instead it is pointing to a windows server on the domain. I can see that the DNS name isn't even being registered on our DNS server.

Things I've done:

• Entered hostname in sharing (it ends in .local though if that's important)
• Pri and sec DNS servers added in Network by IP address
• Server has been added to our AD server and the service is running on the Mac Server (it has been bound)
• The Open Directory service is running on the server and is acting as Master (is this causing a conflict with AD?)

Not sure if I need to provide any more information but here are some details from a log file on the server...

Jan 30 13:39:35 macserver lookupd[118]: lookupd (version 369.8) starting - Fri Jan 30 13:39:35 2009
Jan 30 13:39:35 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: Reloaded named
Jan 30 13:39:39 macserver /System/Library/CoreServices/mcxd.app/Contents/MacOS/mcxd: DSOpenNode(): dsOpenDirNode("/Active Directory/All Domains") == -14002
Jan 30 13:39:42 macserver /usr/sbin/serialnumberd[206]: serialnumberd: Firewall rule #1 added to allow port 626.
Jan 30 13:39:45 macserver /usr/sbin/serveradmin: servermgr_ipfilter:ipfw config:Noticeisabled firewall
Jan 30 13:39:50 macserver ntpdate[130]: sendto(192.168.x.x): Host is down
Jan 30 13:39:50 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no name available via DNS for 192.168.x.x
Jan 30 13:39:50 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly
Jan 30 13:39:51 macserver ntpdate[130]: sendto(192.168.x.x): Host is down
Jan 30 13:39:52 macserver ntpdate[130]: sendto(192.168.x.x): Host is down
Jan 30 13:39:52 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: Reloaded named
Jan 30 13:39:52 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no name available via DNS for 192.168.x.x
Jan 30 13:39:52 macserver servermgrd: servermgr_dns: no reverse DNS entry for server, various services may not function properly
Jan 30 13:39:53 macserver ntpdate[130]: sendto(192.168.x.x): Host is down
Jan 30 13:39:54 macserver ntpdate[130]: no server suitable for synchronization found
Jan 30 13:39:54 macserver configd[54]: target=enable-network: disabled
Jan 30 13:39:55 macserver ntpd[294]: sendto(192.168.x.x): Host is down


Any ideas would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thanks in advance!