Servfail - No response

Hi guys, how are you?

I have installed Unbound recentely bc I want to use it with my Pi-Hole, however it didn’t work properly.

I followed these steps https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ but didn’t work as expected.

Here is the output of dig and unbound log:

Who told you to try that?

You probably meant:

$ dig pi-hole.net @127.0.0.1 -p 5335

Yes, this is the command I used.

The first e-mail I sent had two prints of the commands and was too large.

So I used an website to convert image to text (clearly AI can’t takeover the world :rofl::rofl:).

Here is the correct outputs:

Lots of people seem to have acquired the general habit of taking screenshots ("prints") of text instead of just sending plain text when they want to illustrate some problem at the command line. I don't know why.

In this case you created a bitmap of some text and then used optical character recognition to turn that bitmap back into text, a process that almost guarantees some number of errors in a situation where accuracy is important and is definitely a lot more work.

Surely you realise all of this and your comment was intended to be self-deprecating and ironic (in which case well done, I like it) but in case anybody else didn't read it that way:

Please cut and paste text when you want to send text!

It's more accurate, more accessible, easier to search, consumes less storage and bandwidth and your volunteer audience who you hope will do you the generous favour of reading it will appreciate all of these things.

Joe

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ dig pi-hole.net @127.0.0.1 -p 5335

; <<>> DiG 9.16.33-Raspbian <<>> pi-hole.net @127.0.0.1 -p 5335
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 52341
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

This is time for "stupid questions":

Is your host able to get a response from the

dig @<root-name-server-address> . ns +norec

command? Pick one or more root name server addresses from your
hints file.

If it can't, your unbound recursor won't be able to do its
"priming" query, and will respond with SERVFAIL when asked about
anything and all.

Regards,

- Håvard

Yes, I get response. Here's the output:

Yes, I get response. Here's the output:

OK, then it's not that.

Next I would go look in the system log to see if unbound has
logged any errors or warnings there.

Regards,

- Håvard

This is the only thing the log shows: