dynamic ip host & auto dns changes
Ernie Luzar
luzar722 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 18 19:05:47 UTC 2017
A. Schulze via Unbound-users wrote:
>
> Am 18.09.2017 um 14:57 schrieb Ernie Luzar via Unbound-users:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I have installed the unbound port on Freebsd release 11.1. My host gets
>> an dynamic ip address assigned from the ISP service I am using. This is
>> all very common and normal. But as we all know, the ISP can change not
>> only the assigned ip address on the fly but also the dns servers ip
>> addresses. When this occurs the /etc/resolv.conf file gets updated
>> automatically on the fly.
>>
>> From reading about unbound I get the concept that unbound is designed
>> for hosts that have static ip addresses. IE; the dns ip addresses have
>> to be manually placed in /etc/resolv.conf and will not change without
>> prior written notice.
>>
>> For this usage /etc/resolv.conf get populated with
>> "nameserver 127.0.0.1"
>> and unbound.conf needs the forward-zone: section with the static dns ip
>> addresses.
>
> which "static dns ip address" do you like to see there?
>
>> Now my question is, is there any way to configure unbound so when the
>> dynimic dns ip addresses change unbound will contuine to work
>> automatically. IE; no human manual editing of the unbound.conf file.
> simply do no forwarding at all. Let unbound do it's job:
> - offer recursiver resolution on 127.0.0.1
> - resolve names as usual from the root
> You're not required to *use* the ISP's dnsserver even if they are offered.
>
> Andreas
>
I think maybe I was un-clear. Most of the original post is describing
the differences between how the /etc/resolv.conf file is populated based
on the host having a static or dynamic ip address.
Asking my question a different way.
How doe's unbound interact with the hosts /etc/resolv.conf file?
How do dns requests arriving at the host from the LAN get directed first
to unbound "local-zone: fqdn always_nxdomain" list and then use the
"nameservers x.x.x.x" listed in the hosts /etc/resolv.conf file to
complete the dsn request?
Please provide example of the unbound.conf statements to get this to happen.
Thank you.
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