Disabling Recursive DNS in the Plesk Panel and No Panels

To Disable Recursive DNS in the Parallels Plesk Panel

1. Log in to the Parallels Plesk Panel as administrator.
2. Click Tools & Settings.
3. From the General Settings area, click DNS Template Settings.
4. Click DNS Recursion.Select Localnets, and then click Ok.

For Windows Servers:

1. Log in to your  Server  through a Remote Desktop Connection.
2. From the Start menu, click Control Panel, Administrative Tools, then DNS.
3. In the console tree, right-click the appropriate DNS server, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Advanced tab.
5. Under Server options, check Disable recursion, and then click OK.
6. In the console tree, right-click the appropriate DNS server, and then click Clear Cache.

CentOS

# cd /etc
# nano named.conf

Change this line

# recursion yes;

to

# recursion no;

Restart

# service named restart

Ubuntu

# nano /etc/bind/named.conf.options

Set up like this

// global options apply to external clients
options {
    recursion no;
    additional-from-auth no;
    additional-from-cache no;
};

view "local" in {
    // view options enable recursion only for local clients
    match-clients { 172.16.45.80/23; 192.168.12.0/24; 127.0.0.1/8; ::1; };
    recursion yes;
    additional-from-auth yes;
    additional-from-cache yes;

    zone "." in {
            type hint;
            file "/etc/bind/db.root";
    };

    // put definitions for zones like "localhost" and "127.in-addr.arpa" here
}

// put definitions for real authoritative zones here.