resolv.conf and a non-standard port

Bert Kiers kiersb at xs4all.net
Mon Aug 21 10:47:04 UTC 2017



On 21/08/2017 12:23, Victor Sudakov wrote:
> Colleagues,

Hi,

> How can I configure the resolver to use a DNS server with a
> non-standard port? 
> 
> I have a host running an authoritative-only server (nsd) for the
> world, and I want to run local unbound for the host itself (can't use
> nsd for recursive queries).
> 
> Unbound can listen on a non-standard port, but how do I configure the
> host to use the DNS server at 127.0.0.1:5353 ?

I think it will be more simple to have nsd and unbound listen on
different IP-adresses, like unbound on 127.0.0.1 and nsd on the external
IP-address.  Then put 127.0.0.1 in resolv.conf

Grtnx,
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