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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