Disabling DNS Recursion on Windows Server 2008 R2 and mitigation of DNS Amplification Attacks

Over the past year DNS Amplification attacks have been worse, even to the point that the US-CERT (http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-088A) issued a warning last month. With Linux and Unix BIND DNS Server installs a simple config change can take care of this issue however, in Microsoft’s implementation of the DNS server there is a lack of this …