DNS won't resolve SRV records with recursion disabled

Question

I have DNS installed on a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.  I have a standard zone created (no AD integration).  I have recursion disabled.  When I use NSLookup to lookup any of the A records or CName Records the results are returned as
expected.  However, if I attempt to lookup any SRV or MX Records, the list of root hints are returned (which is what I would expect if I was attempting to lookup a domain not hosted on this server).  Now I enable recursion and run the same exact
commands and I get the results I'm expecting.
I'm stumped.....
DB

Answer 1

Reader's digest version:  Putting a period at the end of my record, resolved the issue.  This seems to be a difference between Windows 2003 and Windows 2008R2
Long version:
Thanks for the debug tip.  That confirms the issue.  So to backup a little, I had a Windows 2003 box running DNS.  I planned on decommissioning this box; therefore, I stood up the second server, made a secondary DNS zone, once all records
transferred, I flipped the primary and secondary roles.
The real problem is this zone cannot find any of the TXT records such as SRV and MX.  When I run NSLookup with recursion disabled, my results are:
    HEADER:
        opcode = QUERY, id = 18, rcode = NOERROR
        header flags:  response, want recursion
        questions = 1,  answers = 0,  authority records = 13,  additional = 3
That makes perfect sense why recursion is working.  If I run the same results on the secondary DNS server (the original server) the results are expected:
    HEADER:
        opcode = QUERY, id = 20, rcode = NOERROR
        header flags:  response, auth. answer, want recursion, recursion avail.
        questions = 1,  answers = 4,  authority records = 0,  additional = 4
SO THE REAL QUESTION is why can't the new server find these records, especially since it's a copy of the zone from the old server.  I flipped the servers back, deleted the DNS zone (and files) on the new server, restarted DNS service, created the zone
again, and allowed the content to copy over from the old server and I STILL get the same results.
The last thing I did was created a new SRV record on the new server and performed another NSLookup, but still get the same results.
So then I remembered
MuhammadUmar's post about putting a period at the end of my nslookup command.  I honestly didn't that that was going to change the results, but BAM.  I was wrong.  When I put in the request with a period at the end of the record, I get the
results I'm expecting.
Thanks all for helping me on this one!
DB