Strange unbound behaviour

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hm.. looks like I missed this one. Will test and let you know.

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:51 PM, Matt Smith <matt.xtaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Aug 24 16:28, Stefan Lambrev wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have two DNS servers up and running for my home setup. But for some
>> reason both stop resolving at some point.
>>
>> 1st instance is with unbbound from ports, second from base system but
>> configs are very similar:
>>
>> # cat /usr/local/etc/unbound/unbound.conf
>>        directory: /usr/local/etc/unbound
>>        chroot: /usr/local/etc/unbound
>>
>> If I restart the service it works again...
>>
>>
> In man(5) unbound.conf it says this:
>
> # make sure unbound can access entropy from inside the chroot.
> # e.g. on linux the use these commands (on BSD, devfs(8) is used):
> #      mount --bind -n /dev/random /etc/unbound/dev/random
>
> I can see that you use a chroot. I'm wondering if you've not mounted a
> /dev/random into the chroot and maybe it's running out of free entropy for
> something and blocking. This might explain why it works for a while and
> then fails.
>
> I do this:
>
> In /etc/fstab:
>
> devfs                   /usr/local/etc/unbound/dev      devfs   rw      0
>      0
>
> In /etc/rc.conf:
>
> devfs_set_rulesets="/usr/local/etc/unbound/dev=devfsrules_unbound"
>
> In /etc/devfs.rules:
>
> [devfsrules_unbound=10]
> add hide
> add path random unhide
>
> Might help?
>
> --
> Matt
>