A picture is worth a thousand words (OK, maybe about 100 in the case of a Microsoft GUI). :)Are you familiar with setting the Microsoft DNS server setting to act as a recursive DNS server for only certain Ips?I have been allowing recursion, in the sense that you have mentioned (I believe), however, the check box was checked so I believed that I was not allowing recursion. Is this a correct observation? Enclosed is a screen grab of the MS DNS setting.
The first picture ("Interfaces") just covers which IPs the DNS server will listen on. That one isn't too important (it's one of those "It either works or it doesn't" settings).
The second picture has typical Microsoft gobbledygook. The recursion that it refers to is apparently recursion between it and the "forwarders" (recursive DNS servers that it connects to in order to get the results), not whether or not it will respond to recursive requests. So it will allow recursive lookups regardless of whether or not you have the "Do no use recursion" box checked (it's not a bug, it's just a bad GUI interface).
I can certainly see now why you thought that the server didn't allow recursion when in fact it really did. :)
I'm not sure what you are trying to do here?I would like to set it so that hotmail.com, would be the only server that can ask the MX record.
Technically, what you are asking is for Hotmail users to be able to send you mail, but nobody else can. I don't think that's what you want. Also, you can't allow domains to access your server; you can only allow/ban IPs.
Are you trying to restrict queries against your domain (so that only certain people can find out your MX records, for example), or are you trying to make sure that only certain servers can query your DNS server (such as your mailserver)?
-Scott
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