This is a simple guide on how to get Unbound running as a forwarding and local DNS server on your network.
Just install a base OpenBSD installation, and drop to shell after first boot. Be sure to setup so that the
VM has a static IP on your network. For me that’s 10.10.0.145
.
I will also be using nextdns.io for AD blocking and forwarding.
Setting up unbound
$ rcctl enable unbound $ cat > /var/unbound/etc/unbound.conf << EOF server: interface: 10.10.0.145 interface: 127.0.0.1 access-control: 10.10.0.1/32 allow access-control: 127.0.0.1/32 allow do-not-query-localhost: no hide-identity: yes hide-version: yes tls-cert-bundle: /etc/ssl/cert.pem local-zone: "crnkovic.family." static local-data: "router.crnkovic.family. IN A 10.10.0.1" forward-zone: name: "." forward-tls-upstream: yes forward-addr: 45.90.28.0#.dns1.nextdns.io forward-addr: 45.90.30.0# .dns2.nextdns.io EOF $ rcctl start unbound
The idea is that only the Unifi UDM is going to make DNS requests to this instance and then provide the results using dnsmasq, so we don’t allow querying form any other IP except 10.10.0.1 and 127.0.0.1.
Making sure we are caching our own DNS requests
Since my network is using DHCP I had to override the DNS provided by the router:
$ cat > /etc/dhclient.conf << EOF supersede domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; EOF $ sh /etc/netstart