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    Setting Unbound outgoing network interface to gateway group?

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      packetpirate
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      I am using Unbound as my DNS resolver, and I currently have the Outgoing Network Interface set to a Wireguard VPN interface. This allows me to send queries to the authoritative servers through a wireguard tunnel.

      My problem is, if this tunnel goes down, I lose DNS. Is there any way to set the Outgoing Interface to a gateway group instead of an interface? I have a gateway group with two tunnels in it, one acting as a fallback solution, so this would be ideal to use in Unbound as well.

      Thanks!

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        packetpirate @packetpirate
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        Never did figure this out, does anyone have a solution for this?

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          Dslgeek
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          Make sure all the tunnels you want are included in Unbound outgoing interfaces. Assign higher priority to vpn tunnels in your gateway group but include your default wan at a lower priority. Create a firewall rule on your LAN interface filtering DNS and under advanced options select your VPN group (which also includes default WAN at a lower priority). If you want add a tag like "dns" and in your default_out_WAN rule (which should be below your dns rule) under advance options select the !dns tag.

          I think that should work, you will send your dns traffic over vpn tunnels but if they ALL go down you won't lose dns.

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