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It's okay that the server is showing 127.0.0.1 local host. That's essentially the same as it showing its own 192.168. address. The clients should be reporting the FQDN of your dns server there, though it is not necessarily fatal to dns. The timeout and unknown server name may simply be because reverse ip lookup is failing. Do you have a reverse lookup zone in your DNS? Is your server's IP in that zone? The timeout isn't pretty, but as long as it is resolving names to ip addresses, then it is probably working properly. Did you try to resolve some internet names from nslookup, like www.google.com, etc? Also, on your forwarder, I would set it to the IP of your ISP's DNS servers. It'll work the way you have it, but it's just another layer of relaying that has to occur for each lookup.