Analysing lookup failures.

[Maurice McCarthy]

On 03/05/18 07:31, Krist van Besien via Unbound-users wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been experimenting on and off with unbound on my fedora laptop.
> I am also considering it for a caching DNS for my home network.
> 
> But before I do that I need to figure out something first.
> 
> On my laptop (which sits on all kind of public and private WIFI
> networks all the time) I sometimes run in to situations where name
> resolution is unreliable.
> 
> The symptoms are that lookups will sometimes turn up empty or
> incomplete. And I have so far not figured out how you can tease
> unbound in to telling me why my request turned up empty.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> So, if a "dig <some domain>" turns up empty, how do I find out why it
> turned out empty?
> 
> Krist
> 
> 
> -- 
> krist.vanbesien at gmail.com
> krist at vanbesien.org
> Bern, Switzerland

Have a read of man unbound and set the verbosity level in unbound.conf

Good Luck