Dave wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a few servers up at a CO-LO running a windows 2000 domain. I
> have 2 Domain Controllers (PDC and SDC) and i'm all of a sudden
> getting a red flag error on dnsreport.com for all of my domains that
> I host on my name servers. Here's one example:
>
> http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsre...osstheroom.com
>
> http://forums.dnsstuff.com/tool/post...78&trail=15#14
>
> The problem is, if i follow the recommendation and check the Disable
> Recursion checkbox, I can no longer see the Internet from my name
> servers. I don't even know if this is a problem or why this happened,
> but i did it remotely (through Remote Desktop) and i didn't get
> disconnected, so i seemed to be connected still. Anyway, what is the
> correct way to configure this?

You are going to have to ignore the DNS report or MOVE the public zone to a
non-recursive DNS server. If the Windows DNS is used for DNS resolution for
clients, you cannot disable recursion. MS DNS recurses for all or recurses
for none.

This question has been asked what seems like 50 times in this group since
DNSreport.com added this test.

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Best regards,
Kevin D. Goodknecht Sr. [MVP]
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