6 Unbound diagnostic commands to know

Are you using unbound with your PiHole server? Would you like to see what is going on with Unbound? Stay tuned and I will show you some commands that will do that.

! Enable remote administration of unbound Sudo unbound-control-setup

! Place these commands in /etc/unbound/unbound.conf ! Place before any cmd to load any *.conf files ! remote-control: # Enable remote control with unbound-control(8) here. # set up the keys and certificates with unbound-control-setup. control-enable: yes

# what interfaces are listened to for remote control.
# give 0.0.0.0 and ::0 to listen to all interfaces.
control-interface: 127.0.0.1

# port number for remote control operations.
control-port: 8953

# unbound server key file.
server-key-file: "/etc/unbound/unbound_server.key"

# unbound server certificate file.
server-cert-file: "/etc/unbound/unbound_server.pem"

# unbound-control key file.
control-key-file: "/etc/unbound/unbound_control.key"

# unbound-control certificate file.
control-cert-file: "/etc/unbound/unbound_control.pem"

! Reboot pi-hole rpi to activate changes Sudo reboot

! Unbound commands to use ! dump cache to stdout sudo unbound-control dump_cache

! print statistics without resetting them sudo unbound-control stats_noreset

! Display status of unbound server sudo unbound-control status

! Show dns servers to be used for lookup of the specified domain sudo unbound-control lookup www.novell.com

! Show the requests currently being worked on sudo unbound-control dump-requestlist

! Shows the dns servers the requests will be forwarded to sudo unbound-control list_forwards

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️ 0:00 - Intro 0:48 - What we will be covering 1:11 - Configuring unbound-control 3:36 - unbound-control dump_cache 3:56 - unbound-control stats_noreset 4:26 - unbound-control status 4:56 - unbound-control domain_lookup 5:38 - unbound-control dump_requestlist 6:17 - unbound-control list_forwards 6:54 - other unbound-control commands

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