Perplexed With DNS - Bind 9

Greetings!

I've been working on this problem for over a week now and am stuck. The
stituation:

I've registered a domain a few weeks ago named 'thingskidslike.com' with
my web host provider and name resolution using Bind 9 just will not work
reliably. For example, if I point resolve.conf to 127.0.0.1 using Bind 9
and try to ping thingskidslike.com, it will ping, but
www.thingskidslike.com or mail.thingskidslike.com will not ping. If I
restart named and ping 'www.thingskidslike.com' it will ping but
'thingskidslike.com' and mail.thingskidslike.com will not ping. It seems
that whatever I ping first after restarting named will ping, but nothing
else. Oddly, if I point reslove.conf to a Bind 8 or Bind 4 server,
everything pings as it should.

My web host provider and I have been troubleshooting this for days, and
can't find the culprit. Apparently, this is only affecting my account,
and if it matters the DNS server hosting my domain is running Bind 8,
and I've testing using Bind 9.1.x and Bind 9.2.x with both Red Hat 7.3
and Slackware 9.0 with the same results.

Also...if I send test e-mails to thingskidslike.com, postfix (on my file
server) gives a DNS lookup failure regardless of what I can ping.

I'm at the point now where I may have to transfer my domain to a 3rd
party like easydns, but I'd rather not incur more expenses if possible.

I will gladly summarize, and provide futher information if requested.

Thanks much in advanced!

Chris Fischer

P.S.  The following is my DNS record:


$ORIGIN .

$TTL 14400      ; 4 hours

thingskidslike.com      IN SOA  207.218.250.21.
root.dorado.handsonwebhosting.com. (

                                2004012002 ; serial

                                28800      ; refresh (8 hours)

                                7200       ; retry (2 hours)

                                3600000    ; expire (5 weeks 6 days 16
hours)

                                86400      ; minimum (1 day)

                                )

                        NS      207.218.250.21.

                        NS      207.218.250.214.

                        A       66.98.204.172

                        MX      0 thingskidslike.com.

$ORIGIN thingskidslike.com.

ftp                     A       66.98.204.172

mail                    A       66.98.204.172

www                     A       66.98.204.172

localhost               A       127.0.0.1

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