impact of qname minimization with Unbound as forwarder

[Fred Morris]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2025, A. Schulze via Unbound-users wrote:
> [...]
>> I would like to configure Unbound as a DNS forwarder with Quad9 as the
>> upstream recursive resolver.
>> [...]
> [...]
> But if you forward any queries to one destination anyway, I see no value for 
> qname-minimization.
> So, yes quad9's suggestion sounds right to me.

Concur. Presumably the forwarded query is sent with RD, expecting the 
upstream to perform recursion. qname-minimization doesn't really apply.

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Fred Morris