[TriLUG] Name server

[Matt Pusateri]

I’ve had issues with DNS resolution on my Pfsense box. The pfsense box can resolve lookups, but no hosts on the local network stop resolving.  I’ve never been able to figure it out.  I tried using unbound instead of dnsmasq, but had similar issues.  I’m pretty sure it’s something with pfsense falling over, but haven’t been able to find it.

Matt P.

On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:30 PM, Phil Smith <mazphil57 at yahoo.com> wrote:

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> The 'unbound' project seems to meet the OP's requirements: "Unbound (unbound.net) is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver", and with regards to BIND: "FreeBSD announced that Unbound and LNDS will replace BIND as the system's DNS resolver".  
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> I was getting annoyed with Century Link's nameserver taking 10 seconds to resolve 'raleigh.craigslist.org' but rather than setting up unbound, a quick workaround was to put a different ISP's nameserver first in /etc/resolv.conf.  If anyone tries unbound, I'd like to hear if it seems to speed things up.
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> Phil
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