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 Pihole in your environment. With these you can to block ads, malicious traffic, and control DNS lookups. Let's look at Pihole unbound blackhole DNS configuration and see how you can easily configure unbound along with Pihole.

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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 Pihole 8:17
Overview of the DNS communication flow between Pihole 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 unboundcontrol command line commands 11:05
Running unboundcontrol status 11:50
Running unboundcontrol 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...

Pihole DNS Networkwide Ad Blocking:
https://pihole.net/