I originally tried to rejoin a computer to a network which led to a "cannot find domain" error. The username/password box don't even come up.

some tests i ran: I can ping the server, however I can't ping the domain name domain1.local.
nslookup can't find the domain either. It looks to the isp's dns instead of my own to resolve the local machines.

So i go to the dns and run netdiag.exe and gives me this error.

DNS test . . . . . . . . . . . . . : Failed
          [WARNING] Cannot find a primary authoritative DNS server for the name
            'stmartinsrv.stmartin.local.'. [RCODE_SERVER_FAILURE]
            The name 'srv.domain1.local.' may not be registered in DNS.

    [WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '68.94.156.1'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
    [WARNING] The DNS entries for this DC are not registered correctly on DNS se
rver '68.94.157.1'. Please wait for 30 minutes for DNS server replication.
    [FATAL] No DNS servers have the DNS records for this DC registered.


Redir and Browser test . . . . . . : Passed
    List of NetBt transports currently bound to the Redir
        NetBT_Tcpip_{04BB0F6B-06AE-4D60-80C8-2A7A24C1D87B}
    The redir is bound to 1 NetBt transport.

    List of NetBt transports currently bound to the browser
        NetBT_Tcpip_{04BB0F6B-06AE-4D60-80C8-2A7A24C1D87B}
    The browser is bound to 1 NetBt transport.

from previous postings, I've tried adding the domain suffix to the nic ip properties to both the client machine and the dc server which didn't help.

any ideas? thanks in advance