Help with getting Unbound to use DoH (DNS over HTTPS)

Hendrik Meyburgh hendrikdm at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 18:42:21 UTC 2021


Hi.

Try adding the --with-ssl compile option. You can then run unbound with -d and -v
for debug information during startup and will give you more info why it is not
working.


On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 10:36:22AM -0600, Ronald Nutter via Unbound-users wrote:
> I have been using Unbound with DoT but would like to see about moving over
> to HTTPS.  Have been looking for how to do this but what I have found so
> far doesnt give me the information I am looking for.  I have some
> experience with Linux but am no where near being a programmer.
> 
> Here is what I have found so far -
> 
> # Since I installed using apt, figure that I should uninstall it first
> 
> sudo apt remove unbound
> 
> 
> # Download/compile unbound to use DoH
> wget http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/unbound-1.13.1.tar.gz
> tar -zxvf unbound-1.13.1.tar.gz (missing step?)
> ./configure --with-libnghttp2
> make
> make install
> 
> #configuring unbound to use DoH
> server:
> interface: 127.0.0.1 at 443
> tls-service-key "key.pem"
> tls-service-pem: "cert.pem"
> 
> # Adapted from TLS/DoT instructions, so not sure about this
> forward-zone:
>     name: "."
>     forward-tls-upstream: yes
>     # Cloudflare DNS
>     forward-addr: 2606:4700:4700::1111 at 443#cloudflare-dns.com
>     forward-addr: 1.1.1.1 at 443#cloudflare-dns.com
>     forward-addr: 2606:4700:4700::1001 at 443#cloudflare-dns.com
>     forward-addr: 1.0.0.1 at 443#cloudflare-dns.com
> 
> Is this correct ?
> Would appreciate any pointers in helping get this to work
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron


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