[Unbound-users] Troubleshooting occasional "Permission denied" errors?

[Jarno Huuskonen]

Hi,

> From: Tom Samplonius <tom at samplonius.org>
>   I?m seeing some Permission denied errors in the log:
> 
> Jun 15 19:51:56 dns2 unbound: [18520:1] error: can't bind socket: Permission denied
> Jun 15 20:02:03 dns2 unbound: [18520:1] error: can't bind socket: Permission denied
> 
> Unbound seems to be running normally, and appears to be answer all queries normally.  It is version 1.4.20 on CentOS 7.

Are you running with selinux enabled ?

Check selinux audit log (/var/log/audit/audit.log), denied ports might be
logged there. Or try with something like this in unbound.conf:
outgoing-port-avoid: 8953
outgoing-port-avoid: 5546

(I think I got selinux denied for (at least) these two ports).

-Jarno

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Jarno Huuskonen