6 Unbound diagnostic commands to know

Are you using unbound with your PiHole server?
Would you like to see what is going on with Unbound?
Stay tuned and I will show you some commands that will do that.

! Enable remote administration of unbound
Sudo unbound-control-setup

! Place before any cmd to load any *.conf files
!
remote-control:
# Enable remote control with unbound-control(8) here.
# set up the keys and certificates with unbound-control-setup.
control-enable: yes

# what interfaces are listened to for remote control.
# give 0.0.0.0 and ::0 to listen to all interfaces.
control-interface: 127.0.0.1

# port number for remote control operations.
control-port: 8953

# unbound server key file.

# unbound server certificate file.

# unbound-control key file.

# unbound-control certificate file.

! Reboot pi-hole rpi to activate changes
Sudo reboot

! Unbound commands to use
! dump cache to stdout
sudo unbound-control dump_cache

! print statistics without resetting them
sudo unbound-control stats_noreset

! Display status of unbound server
sudo unbound-control status

! Show dns servers to be used for lookup of the specified domain

! Show the requests currently being worked on
sudo unbound-control dump-requestlist

! Shows the dns servers the requests will be forwarded to
sudo unbound-control list_forwards

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - What we will be covering
1:11 - Configuring unbound-control
3:36 - unbound-control dump_cache
3:56 - unbound-control stats_noreset
4:26 - unbound-control status
4:56 - unbound-control domain_lookup
5:38 - unbound-control dump_requestlist
6:17 - unbound-control list_forwards
6:54 - other unbound-control commands

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CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 2GB Basic Starter Kit with Fan (2GB RAM)

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