Hey everyone! I'm having a bit of trouble after setting up Unbound on my laptop with Xubuntu. I followed the installation instructions, and it was working great for browsing sites without needing a VPN. But for some reason, it's totally stopped working now. I tried restarting the service, but that didn't help. I think I might have messed something up during the installation or configuration. Can anyone help me troubleshoot this or provide some guidance on how to fix it? Thanks so much!
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It sounds like you might need to provide a bit more detail on what "stopped working" means. Are you still unable to browse, or is it specifically Unbound that's the issue? Also, did you change your DNS settings to point to Unbound? If that’s the case, try switching back to automatic DNS or use your ISP’s DNS just to see what happens. You might want to check with a traceroute to see if your requests are even leaving your network. That could help pinpoint where things are going wrong!
You're right! I did set my DNS to point to Unbound, and I've resolved the issue now. But, I did run into another problem when trying to forward Unbound to Google's DNS. My setup is dns > unbound > google DNS (to make it faster than the default 127.0.0.1). I created a forward-google.conf file, and here's what I put:
sudo nano /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/forward-google.conf
server:
verbosity: 3
forward-zone:
name: "."
forward-addr: 8.8.8.8
forward-addr: 8.8.4.4