How to safely surf the internet using Pi-Hole, Cloudflare & Unbound

Using PiHole and Unbound?
Want to use Cloudflare with PiHole and Unbound?
Stay tuned and I will show you how

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 – Intro
0:49 – What we will be covering
1:11 – Review of where we got started and why
2:59 – Configuring PiHole/Unbound with DoT
6:31 – Testing that DoT and Unbound are working

Enable DNS over TLS with Unbound and Cloudflare
server:
tls-cert-bundle: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
forward-zone:
name: “.”
forward-tls-upstream: yes
# Cloudflare DNS
forward-addr: 2606:4700:4700::1111@853#cloudflare-dns.com
forward-addr: 1.1.1.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com
forward-addr: 2606:4700:4700::1001@853#cloudflare-dns.com
forward-addr: 1.0.0.1@853#cloudflare-dns.com

Verify this is working after restarting unbound and going to 1.1.1.1/help
# sudo service unbound restart

After restart of unbound, use tail daemon.log to verify everything is working
tail /var/log/daemon.log

Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: Stopping Unbound DNS server…
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: unbound.service: Succeeded.
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: Stopped Unbound DNS server.
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: Starting Unbound DNS server…
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole package-helper[24641]: /var/lib/unbound/root.key has content
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole package-helper[24641]: success: the anchor is ok
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole unbound: [24645:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.9.0).
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: Started Unbound DNS server.
Feb 13 13:46:20 DoH-PiHole systemd[1]: Started Unbound DNS server via resolvconf.

Different port numbers
DoT traffic uses a dedicated port 853
DoH uses port 443 (HTTPS) due to the protocol layering.

Unbound can use DoH but requires a different compile option
For home use, not sure if this is worth the effort

How to further check how safe your DNS experience is
https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni/

How to check the status of Cloudflare’s system
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

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*** Show Notes, Links and Resources ****
Here are the items mentioned in this video –

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Basic Starter Kit with Fan (2GB RAM)
https://amzn.to/35QBB8I
$63

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