ok this is the bit that worries me

That looks perfectly normal, since .museum is a TLD and doesn't have an A record. Try about.museum, which has these records in the TLD's zone file:

about.museum.        86400      IN      NS      nic.frd.se.
about.museum.        86400      IN      NS      nic.museum.
about.museum.        3600       IN      NSEC    academy.museum. NS RRSIG NSEC
about.museum. 3600 IN RRSIG NSEC 5 2 3600 20100514183858 20100414183858 1290 museum. nuT/EvDH+akM3yzOLX3eNwMLsUpwOCoNWBl9HSqFZm1JqiGWOEw0/Bdl JgZkFOE648z8/scupZw6iRrh4tFLUQci8o4o09MvN88TI+rDpDLOFYy1 DbqKYp2OSaKEUju9MBhDPdAEmZKFLw1nckg2ZQ4s3BeWoOEvgxcS2lqy U+Y=



Bind server on public ip (not firewalled)

#  /usr/local/bind-9.7.0-P1/bin/dig @127.0.0.1  museum

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> @127.0.0.1 museum
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 33867
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;museum.                IN    A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
museum.            3485    IN    SOA    nic.museum. hostmaster.nic.museum.
2010041637 28800 7200 1209600 3600

;; Query time: 3 msec
;; SERVER: 127.0.0.1#53(127.0.0.1)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 19 16:51:17 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 75


querying the djb public server


#  /usr/local/bind-9.7.0-P1/bin/dig @djbcache  museum

; <<>> DiG 9.7.0-P1 <<>> @mk-cache-7.ns.uk.tiscali.com museum
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 10827
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;museum.                IN    A

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 212.139.132.43#53(212.139.132.43)
;; WHEN: Mon Apr 19 16:52:01 2010
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 24


Regards,
John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
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