OD replica, DNS secondary zone, server will not resolve itself

We are testing an OD replica to run in a separate location from our OD master. Master OD and DNS is all set and working as expected. Separate location network user connections and DNS all work as expected when calling the OD master and DNS primary zone. The OD replication works fine. I want to use the same machine as a DNS secondary zone getting its records from the DNS on the OD master. DNS secondary zone seems to pull the records from the primary without trouble.

In testing the secondary DNS without forwarders or backup DNS systems, known internal addresses are resolved by the clients correctly. The issue that I am trying to resolve is that server will not resolve itself. I have the System Preferences / Network / DNS pointed to 127.0.0.1. The DNS is resolving for the clients. Running changeip -checkhostname gives

"The DNS hostname is not available, please repair DNS and re-run this tool."

If I ask a client to browse to the server's web site it resolves fine and I get the default page as expected.

With all of the above in mind, binding a local client to the OD replica and pointing the clients' DNS at the DNS secondary zone results in failure of the bind and the client saying that the server is not responding. If the DNS on the client is pointed to the DNS primary zone, the bind works fine and everything behaves as expected. Pointing the Server to the DNS primary zone resolves the problem as well and it is able to resolve itself.

The problem is that if our connection to our primary site goes down, I want everything to function independently at the second location. If the primary DNS zone is gone the OD replica server cannot resolve itself and authenticaion then does not happen making the OD replica pointless.

Any ideas?

Thanks.