Name server ns2.inmotionhosting.com (70.39.150.2) is recursive.

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Name server ns2.inmotionhosting.com (70.39.150.2) is recursive.

The name server answers recursive queries for 3rd parties (such as DNSCheck). By making a recursive query to a name server that provides recursion, an attacker can cause a name server to look up and cache information contained in zones under their control. Thus the victim name server is made to query the attackers malicious name servers, resulting in the victim caching and serving bogus data.

This is a cut and paste from pingdom. What does this all mean and why is this bad?
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jamesr
Thank you for your question iambriansreed! A recursive nameserver will fetch DNS records for domains that are not contained in it. Our nameservers do not do that. You can test it by doing the following shell command. dig google.com @ns.inmotionhosting.com dig google.com @ns2.inmotionhosting.com Both fail, because we don't have google.com in our nameservers. So in a nutrshell you don't have anything to worry about because our nameservers are not recursive. The Pingdom error is in error. Best Regards, James R