Re: local-unbound vs. dns/unbound

On 26 Mar 2024 15:40:28 -0400
"John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

> It appears that Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky@gmail.com> said:
> >Hello, apologies if this has been asked before, but what is the
> >difference between local-unbound vs. ports dns/unbound?
> 
> It's a copy of unbound with a setup script that configures it as
> a cache to run on 127.0.0.1.  It looks in /etc/resolv.conf to use
> any DNS forwarding you've set up and some other places for
> stuff that seems more exotic.
> 
> If you're using the unbound port or package that's instead of
> local-unbound. The package version is updated more often, currently
> 1.19.1 vs. 1.17.1 for local-unbound on fbsd 13.3.
> 
> R's,
> John

Thanks. I'm not too fussed about using the latest version, as long as
functionality is mostly the same. I'll play around with local-unbound
and see if I can make it work for my use cases. I have a specific
config I need to use, which I copied from my NetBSD unbound setup.
Hopefully FreeBSD local-unbound config scripts are flexible enough to
allow override of 127.0.0.1 and allow me to configure it my way.