Unbound VS dnsmasq

Unbound

• Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024

  dnsmasq and unbound are impacted to

  https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/releases/tag/release-1....

  https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...

  As are any other DNSSEC validators that followed the specifications.

  Bind9 has its problems but this is not its fault this time.

• Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023

  Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ?

  In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound), after I block ad domains.

  DoH circumvents that.

• F5 Forward Proxy DNS resolvers CNAME limit
  1 project | /r/f5networks | 19 Jun 2023

  So yep it's an unbound thing: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/438 there was a PR to allow a user to change the depth of a chase. I doubt F5 would have that version of unbound in any current software but support may be able to check or look at a lab 17.1 to see what version it is--you could then manually edit the conf file but it wouldn't persist through upgrades..

• DNS Resolver does not return correct responses for all queries
  1 project | /r/PFSENSE | 19 Jun 2023

  That's confirms in issue#362 I found.

• What upstream dns resolvers do you use?
  1 project | /r/pihole | 14 Jun 2023

  The last time I checked, Unbound does not support upstream DoH. You can configure it to reply to DoH requests from clients, but you can't use it to forward queries to another DoH provider like Cloudflare or Quad9. Has that changed? The pull request has been open for 3 years.

• Can unbound operate in iterative mode?
  1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 21 May 2023

  And, while the documentation for unbound.conf doesn’t say a whole lot about the iterator module specifically as far as I can tell, the code says:

• Running PiHole on a second server
  2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 May 2023

  Gravity-Sync won't do that. But searching around on GH, I found this : https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/blob/master/contrib/unbound_cache.sh

• DNS Delegation - How to DNSSEC?
  1 project | /r/OPNsenseFirewall | 19 Mar 2023
• pfBlockerNG-devel v3.1.0_7 / v3.1.0_14
  2 projects | /r/pfBlockerNG | 8 Dec 2022

  Version 1.15.0 Configure line: --with-libexpat=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr --disable-dnscrypt --disable-dnstap --with-libnghttp2 --enable-ecdsa --disable-event-api --enable-gost --with-libevent --with-pythonmodule=yes --with-pyunbound=yes ac_cv_path_SWIG=/usr/local/bin/swig LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --disable-subnet --disable-tfo-client --disable-tfo-server --with-pthreads --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd12.3 Linked libs: libevent 2.1.12-stable (it uses kqueue), OpenSSL 1.1.1n-freebsd 15 Mar 2022 Linked modules: dns64 python respip validator iterator BSD licensed, see LICENSE in source package for details. Report bugs to [email protected] or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues

• Anyone know of some open-source or community based name-servers?
  1 project | /r/opensource | 21 Nov 2022

  "Unbound" for example https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound

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