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You can check your dedicated/vps server for open dns relay by following below methods. It tells you if your server allows dns recursion or not. Follow these steps:

Login to your server via ssh with root login details

Execute following commands:

dig @yourServerIP google.com

if it returns ANSWER:0 that means there is no recursion allowed on the server. Otherwise recursion is allowed on the server.

I.E:

;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: REFUSED, id: 37803
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

Above output shows NO RECURSION (ANSWER: 0)

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