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Pihole + Unbound Docker Compose file
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I tried again today with baremetal and docker install but I always end up with SERVFAIL after some time.
Instead of port 53, I need to run unbound on 5335 (or another obscure port).I believe I also had to make some host level changed for DNS to operate correctly for incoming requests.
Here's my podman run commands. These might have changed a bit with Pihole v6, but should still be ok AFAIK.
#PiHole1 Deployment/Upgrade Script podman run -d --name pihole -p 53:53/tcp -p 53:53/udp -p 8080:80/tcp --hostname pihole --cap-add=CAP_AUDIT_WRITE -e FTLCONF_REPLY_ADDR4=192.168.0.201 -e PIHOLE_DNS_="192.168.0.201#5335;192.168.0.202#5335" -e TZ="America/New York" -e WEBPASSWORD=" MyPassword" -v /var/pihole/pihole1:/etc/pihole -v /var/pihole/pihole1/piholedns/:/etc/dnsmasq.d --restart=unless-stopped --label="io.containers.autoupdate=registry" docker.io/pihole/pihole:latest
#UnBound1 Deployment/Upgrade Script podman run -d --name unbound -v /var/pihole/pihole1/unbound:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/ -v /var/pihole/pihole1/unbound/unbound.log:/var/log/unbound/unbound.log -v /var/pihole/pihole1/unbound/root.hints:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/root.hints -v /var/pihole/pihole1/unbound/a-records.conf:/opt/unbound/etc/unbound/a-records.conf -p 5335:5335/tcp -p 5335:5335/udp --restart=unless-stopped --label="io.containers.autoupdate=registry" docker.io/mvance/unbound:latest
I used a similar docker compose config. Yesterday I learned that unbound doesn’t have root.hints by default. I downloaded it following Anudeep’s guide on Github and it was working. But within 2 hours, it started taking too long to respond and eventually stopped replying to pihole. I had to switch to cloudflare.