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Manual for Unbound on Windows

W.C.A. Wijngaards, NLnet Labs, March 2009

ntroduction

!his "anual ai"s to #ro$ide infor"ation about the Unboundser$er on the Windows #latfor". ncluded is installation,uninstallation and so"e infor"ation on configuration s#ecific forWindows. %ull details of o#erating a &N' resol$er are not #art of

this docu"ent, and can better be docu"ented in a #latfor" inde#endentdocu"ent.

What is Unbound and what is &N''(C

Unbound is a &N' resol$er. t su##orts $alidation, caching,and &N''(C. t su##orts N'(C and N'(C), #$* and #$+.Unbound is written for Uni -#osi "achines, and runs on%ree/'&, #en/'&, Net/'& and Linu -%edora, &ebian,Ubuntu, .... !his docu"ent is about the Windows $ersion.

!he ser$ice that unbound #ro$ides is that it #erfor"s &N' loo1u#s, and can#erfor" &N''(C $alidation on the result. f the result is bad, it is not

returned to the client -who sees a te"#orar error in na"e resolution.A##lications that su##ort &N''(C can as1 to see the $erification result.

&N''(C is a standard for securing the infor"ation in the &N'. 3our $alidatorneeds to ha$e #ublic 1es to chec1 the signatures on the data. &N''(C ise#lained "ore full on htt#455www.dnssec.net #ages.

!he unbound #ac1age for windows #ro$ides &N''(C $alidation 6 the clientthat $erifies the signatures #ublished b authoritati$e &N' ser$ers on theinternet.

nstallation

&ownload the installer fro" the htt#455unbound.net website. 7un the installer.n Windows 8ista ou ha$e to #ro$ide ad"inistrator #er"ission.

3ou are greeted with4


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%irst the license is #resented. !his is the /'& license used b the source code.

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!hen choose which co"#onents to install. !he "ain co"#onent cannot beunselected. !he &L8 o#tion downloads the #ublic 1e for dl$.isc.org so that itcan be used to #ro$ide #ublic 1es for &N''(C $alidation. f ou do not chec1this o#tion ou ha$e to add our own 1es for &N''(C $alidation to occur.Without #ublic 1es unbound #erfor"s regular non:secured &N' loo1u#s.

Choose the director to install into, the default is C4;


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Choose if ou want shortcuts in the 'tart Menu. 'ee a later section of this"anual for a descri#tion of the shortcuts installed.

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!he installation is #erfor"ed. f the &L8 1e cannot be downloaded, theinstallation is aborted, ou can hit Cancel to eit and atte"#t to install againonce the networ1 is wor1ing again.

!he installation is finished. Unbound is auto"aticall started for ou.

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Allow unbound to access the networ1 when the windows firewall -or ourinstalled firewall as1s for #er"ission.

Uninstallationf ou installed start "enu shortcuts, run the uninstaller fro" the "enu.therwise, #ress the 7e"o$e button for Unbound in the Control


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!he location is chec1ed4

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%iles are re"o$ed and the uninstallation has been co"#leted.

Chec1 if it is running

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!he detailed #ro#erties loo1 li1e this4

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7eading the error log

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Ad$anced 6 editing the config file

Unbound is configured with a config file. !he default config file is C4;


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'etu# as Local 'er$er

!he default install results in unbound #erfor"ing ser$ice for localhost,running on 2>.0.0.. !his section e#lains how to set u# unbound to #ro$ideser$ice for the local networ1.

(dit the config file, see earlier section on how to edit it, and add the#er"issions to ser$e the local networ1. Add these lines4

# this is a comment.

# provide Ipv4 service.

interface: 0.0.0.0

# provide ipv6 service, uncomment on Vista or if ipv6 is available.

#interface: ::0

# allow access by the local network.

accesscontrol: !".!6$.0.0%!6 allow

# if you have Ipv6 enter your %64 as well and uncomment.

#accesscontrol: 00!:db$::%64 allow

3ou also ha$e to o#en the &N' #ort -#ort =) in the firewall for inco"ing U&

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