[CentOS] DNS maybe problems

I am setting up a new DNS server.  It will be primary for my domain.

This server is in an active subnet with a real public address.

It is not setup yet properly in .com, but that is in the works.

In the var/named/chroot/etc

I added:

named.custom   (which I 'included' in named.conf)

and my various zone files.

All the log entries look good.

Oh in /etc/resolv.conf, I added my system as one of the namewervers.

When I go into nslookup and type any host name I get the error:

** server can't find foo:NXDOMAIN

where foo is whatever I typed in.

so what else did I forget to change?