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.

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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 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...

Pi-hole DNS Network-wide Ad Blocking:
https://pi-hole.net/