Debian 2.0. Bind 8 works but causes dials for local domain names

["Steve Ball" <steve@sball.demon.co.uk>]

I have a working debian 2.0 installation providing Internet connectivity
for a small network. I have BIND 8 working as a local DNS and am able to 
resolve names forwards and backwards for local host and for my local 
domain (.local). Invalid names and addresses within the local network 
are properly declared as unknown and there is no Internet DNS lookup.

Requests for Internet addresses and names outside my domain are looked
up on Internet DNS servers and correctly returned. Reverse lookups for
addresses on my local domain are properly resolved and no Internet 
lookup is performed. Forward local dns lookups are returned correctly
but there is a dns lookup on the internet that triggers a dialup, and
any subsequent dns lookups also trigger internet lookups. 

If I prevent the internet dial then the dns lookups are still correctly
returned. I don't know what the internet traffice is but it is from my
machine on a non privilaged port (>1024) to a root dns server port 53.

Can anyone help me to stop this unnecessary Internet traffic?, and the 
unwanted dials.

Below are my DNS files

Regards

Steve Ball steve@sball.demon.co.uk

==========
named.conf
==========
// generated by named-bootconf.pl
options {
 directory "/var/named";
 /*
  * If there is a firewall between you and nameservers you want
  * to talk to, you might need to uncomment the query-source
  * directive below.  Previous versions of BIND always asked
  * questions using port 53, but BIND 8.1 uses an unprivileged
  * port by default.
  */
 // query-source address * port 53;
};
// 
// Boot file for name server
// 
// type  domain   source  file
zone "." {
 type hint;
 file "named.root";
};
// Zone boot information and daemon options are kept in other files
// (autoincluded from boot.zones)
// 
// Name server zone boot file
// See named(8) for syntax and further information
// 
// type  domain   source  file
// (autoincluded from boot.options)
// 
// Options for name server
// Use `bindconfig' to automatically configure this file
// 
// type  domain   source  file
zone "local" {
 type master;
 file "local";
  };
};
zone "127.in-addr.arpa" {
 type master;
 file "127";
};
// Custom configurations below (will be preserved)
zone "2.1.10.in-addr.arpa" {
 type master;
 file "/var/named/10.1.2.rev";
 };
================
/var/named/local
================
local. IN SOA gate hostmaster.local. (
   1998070408
   3600
   900
   1209600
   43200 )
@  IN NS gate.
www  IN CNAME gate.local.
gate.local. IN A 10.1.2.103
steve.local. IN A 10.1.2.1
local  IN MX 5 gate.local.
local  IN NS gate.local.
smtnet  IN CNAME gate.local.
localhost.local. IN A 127.0.0.1
======================
/var/named/10.1.2.rev
======================
2.1.10.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA gate. hostmaster.local. (
   900148559
   10800
   3600
   432000
   38400 )
2.1.10.in-addr.arpa. IN NS gate.
=======================
/var/named/127
=======================
127.in-addr.arpa. IN SOA localhost. root.localhost. (
   1998061302
   604800
   86400
   2419200
   604800 )
@  IN NS localhost.
1.0.0  IN PTR localhost.local.
==============
named.boot
==============
directory /var/named
cache . named.root
primary local local
primary 2.1.10.IN-ADDR.ARPA 10.1.2
primary 127.IN-ADDR.ARPA 127
options query-log




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