For Windows dedicated hosting server the steps are as follows:

Login in your windows server as Administrator – you need to Open DNS the, from the console tree – right-click the applicable DNS server, after that click on Properties. In the Advanced tab under Server options, you can select the Disable recursion check box, and then click OK

You’ve done this on your windows server now we will do it on linux server.

For Linux dedicated hosting server the steps are as follows:

Kindly login in your dedicated web server as root, now you’re requested to edit the BIND configuration file which can be done by the command nano /etc/named.conf , each server has PRIMARY-IP and a SECONDARY-IP which are the name servers on the dedicated web server.

Add this in the BIND configuration file:

acl “trusted” {
PRIMARY-IP;
SECONDARY-IP;
127.0.0.1;
};

allow-recursion { trusted; };
allow-notify { trusted; };
allow-transfer { trusted; };

Remember to restart the named daemon on the dedicated server by the command service named restart

You’ve now done with closing open DNS recursion on your dedicated hosting server!

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