The challenge for me is in not using forwarding. For MS DNS
servers, forwarding and recursion are tied together; turn off one
and you lose both.
Incorrect. Turning off recursion turns off forwarders, but not vice
versa.
You can have a perfectly operating recursive MS DNS server that does
Thanks, Sandy. Of course, if I had understood everything perfectly (or even
reasonably), I wouldn't have had to post my questions here.
On our old DNS server that ran under Windows 2000 Advanced Server, you could
actually toggle Forwarding and Recursion separately. However, under Windows
2008