I am setting up a development server in my flat. I have set up an Ubuntu DNS server on it and have added the zone weddinglist (just weddinglist - no TLD. It\'s just an internal
Do you have an entry for weddinglist in your hosts file? You can find this in:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
nslookup always uses DNS whereas ping uses other methods for finding hostnames as well.
nslookup