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Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

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Unbound not resolving some domain regions

My RaspberryPi with PiHole and Unbound worked for years but since around 2 weeks ago some domain regions are not being resolved consistently. Domains ending on .ar, .co and .mx are not getting ...
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Trying to understand my level of privacy with a VPN in play, but also routing DNS directly to root servers

When I run a http://dnschecks.tools I get the following: Given I'm using pfSense with Unbound and OpenVPN, I'm doing my own DNS queries to the root servers. The IP listed on IPXO is my VPN IP, and on ...
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How to configure a Forward Zone to handle nested domains?

My Unbound configuration contains an entry for domain example.com: forward-zone: name: "example.com" forward-addr: 10.20.30.1 forward-addr: 10.20.30.2 It works fine for the FQDN ...
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PfSense Unbound deny requests from another Lan

I have PfSense Home server, with two interfaces, LAN and Wifi with Captive Portal. DNS Resolver works perfectly for both, I forced redirection dns trafic at WAN Public DNS to the Firewall itself. And ...
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Pi-hole fails to connect to Unbound DNS

The issue I am facing: Pi-hole cannot connect to Unbound DNS What I want to happen I want to use Pi-hole to filter my network, and Encrypted Unbound as DNS for privacy. I have already set-up both Pi-...
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Unbound: dig domain.tld only workes sometimes?

I set up unbound as described in this instruction: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ To test unbound, I should use dig pi-hole.net @127.0.0.1 -p 5335 (gives ok as result) dig sigfail....
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Unbound (with PiHole): Where is root.hints?

I installed unbound to use with pihole with this instruction: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ It says that I don't need to download root.hints, if I use apt install. Because it would ...
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pfSense DNS Resolver does not resolve local hostnames from DHCP static mappings

I'm on pfSense Community Edition 2.4.5-RELEASE-p1 I assigned some static DHCP mappings on one of my LAN interfaces If I try to reach any one of those static mapped hosts by its Hostname (or by Client ...
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Why does port redirection via IPtables for a second DNS resolver on the same server not work?

I have a Raspberry Pi that is running Bind9 as an authoritative DNS server for a local zone. Every other DNS requests are forwarded to a public DNS server. So Bind9 is listening on port 53 at address ...
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unbound DNS: can't list domains via nslookup

I configured unbound DNS on a CentOS server and set a local-zone in it.And I have turned off the firewall on the server. On Windows I tried to use the nslookup command to verify DNS records in unbound ...
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Unbound DNS: Troubleshooting with ssl-upstream option and/or vpn interface

I recently wanted to setup unbound in place of dnscrypt to resolve queries with my pi-hole on my rasp. The version of unbound available on Raspbian is 1.6.0 currently. When activating the options ...
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Using local unbound DNS server for Strongswan VPN connections

Idea: I would like to use unbound DNS installed on the same server as VPN solution, to block ads and similar unwanted sites with DNS for all VPN connections. Currently unbound is set up for local ...
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Unbound DNS for lan network

I have problem with setting up dns server using unbound. Unbound is set up on freeBSD ('dns.home.local' - 192.168.0.228) and it works, resolving local names (both 'gate' or 'gate.home.local') and ...
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How to configure Unbound to validate a DNS over TLS server's certificate?

I have configured Unbound to use DNS over TLS using the following configuration. How can I configure Unbound to validate the upstream certificate against a hostname? forward-zone: name: "." ...
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isc-dhcp-server + BIND9 + Unbound + dnscrypt & DDNS Not working

Original I have a complex DNS set-up on my home router that's running Ubuntu servers. My objective is to be able to, Query my local ISP's DNS for geo leocation sensitive lookups that I care about ...
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Unbound setting up a secure local DNS server

I don't trust public DNS servers specially because there is a possibility of government hijacking in my country. So basically I want to setup a local unbound server on my laptop which connects ...
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Unbound DNS: Troubleshooting/Resolving Unbound Configuration Problems?

     Every time I try to launch the Unbound DNS server via Homebrew Services with the command 'sudo brew services start unbound,' I start seeing log entries of the following ...
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What can be the cause if DNSSEC suddenly stops working and normal resolving is extremely slow viua unbound?

Suddenly, every .com domain failed DNSSEC validation (regardless of it is signed or not), and normal resolving fails randomly with DNSSEC disabled, for example all youtube videos say "A error occured"....
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