Interesting issue

Unbound
1

This may be something that is obvious or that is behaviour that is expected by
Unbound. Here's my issue.

I have two large-ish (rrset_cache set to 300MB) caches at the front of my
network nearest the egress to the Internet. On a WAN at a stub office (with
WiMax towers connected) is another network, which I set up unbound on as well
and pointed at the caches at the front of the network using:

forward-zone:
       name: "."
       forward-addr: 199.246.2.4
       forward-addr: 199.246.2.115

The machine itself can resolve addresses using this configuration, but none of
the systems on the network can resolve. Taking the forward-zone out, they
resolve perfectly.

2

Hi Steve,

The caches are not accepting queries from the new point?
Possibly resolv.conf on the server does not point to 127.0.0.1 but
elsewhere (which does work somehow), which explains why it can resolve
but the others cannot.

With tcpdump or wireshark see if queries get replies from those two
caches, and that those replies contain valid data.

Or use dig for troubleshooting queries across your network.

Best regards,
   Wouter