/var/named/vanarts.com.zone

;
; Zone file for vanarts.com
;
; The full zone file
;
$TTL 3h
@ IN SOA ns.vanarts.com. hostmaster.vanarts.com. (
199802151 ; serial, todays date + todays serial #
8H ; refresh, seconds
2H ; retry, seconds
4W ; expire, seconds
1D ) ; minimum, seconds
;
NS ns ; Inet Address of name server
MX 10 mail.vanarts.com. ; Primary Mail Exchanger
MX 20 mail.vanarts.com. ; Secondary Mail Exchanger
;
localhost A 127.0.0.1
ns A 192.168.0.196
mail A 192.168.0.196
www A 192.168.0.196

/etc/named.conf

//
// named.conf
//
// Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS
// server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only).
//
// See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files.
//

options {
listen-on port 53 { any; };
//listen-on-v6 port 53 { ::1; };
directory "/var/named";
dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db";
statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt";
allow-query { any; };
recursion yes;

//dnssec-enable yes;
//dnssec-validation yes;
//dnssec-lookaside auto;

/* Path to ISC DLV key */
//bindkeys-file "/etc/named.iscdlv.key";

//managed-keys-directory "/var/named/dynamic";
};

logging {
channel default_debug {
file "data/named.run";
severity dynamic;
};
};

zone "." IN {
type hint;
file "named.ca";
};

zone "vanarts.com" IN {
type master;
allow-query { any; };
file "/var/named/vanarts.com.zone";
};

//include "/etc/named.rfc1912.zones";
//include "/etc/named.root.key";

With the default configuration, the recursion does not work.

I have to comment out several lines as shown above.