DNS Sensor norecurse
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How can I set a DNS sensor to norecurse? The issue I'm finding is authoritative DNS servers are starting to get updated to not allow recursive DNS requests.
A real DNS server wouldn't make a recursive request, so this is a security feature. However this is also causing the DNS sensors to fail because there is not an option to set the norecurse flag on the request.
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Hi Jeff,
At this point the only possiblity would be to create a custom script in conjunction with an EXE/Script or EXE/Script Advanced Sensor.
Kind regards.
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