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Date:      Mon, 6 Aug 2018 12:31:48 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net>
Cc:        Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>, "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How do I stop using local_unbound ?
Message-ID:  <CAN6yY1vr_AfwaRJSQVTrDoAG59DZJzHs6VkxKfqisNEo24Nrrg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180806145717.GE30738@phouka1.phouka.net>
References:  <E1fmg92-0001Wq-5W@dilbert.ingresso.co.uk> <20180806145717.GE30738@phouka1.phouka.net>

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On Mon, Aug 6, 2018 at 7:57 AM, John Kennedy <warlock@phouka.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:06:00PM +0100, Pete French wrote:
> > having enabled local_unbound in /etc/rc.d how do I remove that
> > and go back to using just DHCP delivered nameservers ? I
> > set it to 'NO' but yet the machine still seems to have traces of
> > the config in other places and keeps trying to use them, for reasons I
> > dont understand.
> >
> > Is there a quyick guide to clearing this off a system when you dont want
> to use
> > it anymore ? I get that it needs to be slightly complex to do what it
> does,
> > but its proving very hard to fix the broken DNS looksup!
>
> Hmm.  First, make sure that it isn't running (service local_unbound stop,
> etc).
> Then look at your /etc/resolv.conf -- unbound tends to rewrite that on
> initial
> startup, taking some of it's settings and inserting itself into the middle
> as a
> caching DNS server.  At the very least, you want something like this:
>
>         nameserver 8.8.8.8
>
> I think the default DHCP client stomps all over /etc/resolv.conf fairly
> well,
> but see what options are in there (for example, options for
> domain-name-servers
> and domain-name).  The stock /etc/dhclient.conf is all comments.
>
> I have issues with the DNS results my ISP returns to me, but setting up a
> cache
> or using sites like 8.8.8.8 (google public DNS, if you don't mind feeding
> the
> beast) fixes that.
>

If you don't want to feed the beast, maybe 9.9.9.9 (Quad9). You can read
about it at:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/new-quad9-dns-service-blocks-malicious-domains-for-everyone/
--
Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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