Best DNS Server for Home lab - Pihole Unbound configuration!

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If you want to have the ulimate control over name resolution in your home lab environment and home network in general and , I want to show you guys an awesome DNS solution called Unbound you can use along with Pi-hole in your environment. With these you can to block ads, malicious traffic, and control DNS lookups. Let's look at Pi-hole unbound blackhole DNS configuration and see how you can easily configure unbound along with Pihole. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to DNS and Unbound DNS - 0:00 Overview of Unbound DNS and why you want to use it - 1:00 New security features with DNS resolution - 1:29 You no longer need to forward your DNS to a middle tier DNS layer - 1:50 With Unbound, you can speak directly to Internet root DNS servers - 2:30 Beginning the installatio of Unbound DNS - 3:15 Pulling down the list of root DNS servers - 3:43 Creating the configuration file for Unbound - 4:12 Looking through the Unbound configuration file - 4:57 Changing the interface where Unbound is running - 5:40 Creating the clients.conf file for access control to Unbound - 6:00 Restarting the Unbound DNS service - 7:05 Using Dig to test the Unbound DNS server - 7:20 Looking at the cache functionality of Unbound DNS - 7:33 Making use of Unbound DNS with Pihole - 7:55 Looking at the Docker Compose file to spin up Traefik and Pi-hole - 8:17 Overview of the DNS communication flow between Pi-hole and Unbound - 9:08 Overview of testing - 9:30 Using a Windows 11 test machine and the DNS properties - 9:43 Running recursive DNS lookups with Unbound DNS - 10:15 Describing the cach building on Unbound DNS - 10:45 Looking at the unbound-control command line commands - 11:05 Running unbound-control status - 11:50 Running unbound-control stats_noreset - 11:57 Wrapping up thoughts on Unbound DNS and taking control over DNS queries - 12:25 About Unbound DNS server: https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/ Pi-hole DNS Network-wide Ad Blocking: https://pi-hole.net/