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Configure recursion and delegation

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Configure recursion and delegation

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- [Andrew] DNS Recursion occurs when a petition DNS server queries other DNS servers to resolve a DNS query on behalf of a requesting client. This is the standard behavior in many of your organizational DNS servers. You configure a client to use a particular DNS server, that server almost certainly isn't going to be authoritative from almost all of the records it's required to resolve. So we'll have to ask another DNS server, that's recursion. The petition DNS server returns an answer to the DNS client rather than referring the client to another DNS server. So it takes on the responsibility, it doesn't refer the client to go and find somebody else or contact a different DNS server. It says, right, hold on, then I'll go off and find the record if I can. And if I can't, I'll come back and give you an error. By default, all DNS servers are configured to perform recursive queries. If you want, you can turn off recursion. To do so, open up the advanced tab on the properties for your DNS…

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