DNSSEC on pfSense

jlepthien

Still having problems here. I am on NanoBSD…

Beginning package installation for Unbound...
Downloading package configuration file... done.
Saving updated package information... done.
Downloading Unbound and its dependencies... 
Checking for package installation... 
unbound-1.4.7  (extracting)
  expat-2.0.1_1  (extracting)
  openssl-1.0.0_3  (extracting)
  libevent-1.3e  could not download.
of unbound-1.4.7 failed!

Installation aborted.Removing package...
	Starting package deletion for unbound-1.4.7...done.
	Starting package deletion for expat-2.0.1_1...done.
	Starting package deletion for openssl-1.0.0_2...done.
Removing Unbound components...
	Tabs items... done.
	Menu items... done.
	Services... done.
Loading package instructions...
	Include file unbound.inc could not be found for inclusion.
	Deinstall commands... 
	Not executing custom deinstall hook because an include is missing.
	Removing package instructions...done.
	Auxiliary files... done.
	Package XML... done.
	Configuration... done.
Failed to install package.

Installation halted.

wagonza

Ok i was testing on a full install but that shouldn't make a difference as the packages are collected from the same place.
All I can say is try again today.

jlepthien

Hmmm. pfSense still can't install libevent-1.3e…

Installed it via ssh with pkg_add -r libevent and then went to the GUI to install Unbound but still nothing. Same error as before...

_igor_

This time the installation was a big mess:

First, after installation unbound AND dnsmasq were both enabled. It would be much better to have unbound disabled after a fresh install! I was cut off the internet instantly after the installation, nor could i reach my pfsense-Web-IF again. No dns-name neither IP worked.

looking at the systemlog encountered that the same errors appeared again (description is parsed as config)
Then after that logentries the log was full of "missing unbound-control, not found"-messages.

Finally i managed by deinstalling unbound manually and doing a gitsync to get back control of my pfSense.

wagonza

@jlepthien:

Hmmm. pfSense still can't install libevent-1.3e…

Installed it via ssh with pkg_add -r libevent and then went to the GUI to install Unbound but still nothing. Same error as before...

Seems as though the package had extra make options added. I have explicitly set these now. Packages rebuilding as we speak.

wagonza

@_igor_:

This time the installation was a big mess:

First, after installation unbound AND dnsmasq were both enabled. It would be much better to have unbound disabled after a fresh install! I was cut off the internet instantly after the installation, nor could i reach my pfsense-Web-IF again. No dns-name neither IP worked.

looking at the systemlog encountered that the same errors appeared again (description is parsed as config)
Then after that logentries the log was full of "missing unbound-control, not found"-messages.

Finally i managed by deinstalling unbound manually and doing a gitsync to get back control of my pfSense.

not cool! Ok Ermal has made a recent change which will prevent the packages from been automatically started. So this should prevent the situation where the DNS forwarder and Unbound are trying to run at the same time. Also I have added after install notes to indicate that the user needs to configure Unbound before it will be started and also needs to disable the DNS Forwarder.

Hopefully this commit should address your problem.

_igor_

No problem. shit happens. I'll give it a new try tomorrow. Thanks for your great work!

Tried again, but now i'm having that same problem:

libevent-1.3e could not download.
Cannot install unbound.

jlepthien

Yeah. Still having the libevent problem, too…

_igor_

I was looking at the freebsd-ftp and the only libevent is libevent.tgz, which is libevent-1.4.13.tbz.
I installed it manually, but didn't help.

serangku

today i install unbound package …
still libevent-1.3e could not download.

here full message on package install :
Beginning package installation for Unbound...
Downloading package configuration file... done.
Saving updated package information... done.
Downloading Unbound and its dependencies...
Checking for package installation...
unbound-1.4.7 (extracting)
expat-2.0.1_1 (extracting)
openssl-1.0.0_3 already installed.
libevent-1.3e could not download.
of unbound-1.4.7 failed!

Installation aborted.Removing package...
Starting package deletion for unbound-1.4.7...done.
Starting package deletion for expat-2.0.1_1...done.
Skipping package deletion for openssl-1.0.0_2 because it is required by other packages.
Starting package deletion for libevent-1.4.14b_1...done.
Removing Unbound components...
Tabs items... done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Loading package instructions...
Include file unbound.inc could not be found for inclusion.
Deinstall commands...
Not executing custom deinstall hook because an include is missing.
Removing package instructions...done.
Auxiliary files... done.
Package XML... done.
Configuration... done.
Failed to install package.

Installation halted.

meanwhile, stick to dnsmasq
i really appreciate for provide this package

jimp

Can you try one more time (I just uploaded a freshly recompiled set of packages) and if that fails, try to do this:

pkg_delete -f openssl-1.0.0_2

And then try to reinstall Unbound (Or maybe hit the 'x' to delete it and then re-add it from the list)

_igor_

Great! Installation works! I'm so excited!!! Thanx a lot!!

edit: second note) unbound works great! ping of hosts inside my LAN works. Name resolution is somewhat slower than before, but thats no problem…

last edit: Borat smiles into my face...

:-)

jlepthien

Thanks jimp! Now the install works and also a DNSSEC Test works. But I cannot ping hosts by name on my LAN. Everything works great from the pfSense box itself (eg. ping by name to every host), but not from my LAN hosts. I am only able to ping pfSense.domain.lan but no other hosts from my iMac on LAN.

I also clicked save on the Unbound tab more than once…

jlepthien

Ok. I can see in the unbound.conf that my hosts do not get written into it. Also I want Unbound to listen on three interfaces but it only listens on my main LAN. So WLAN cannot be used at the moment…

Any ideas? I really have checked all three interfaces on the Unbound tab...

wagonza

Ok I gather nothing has changed in your config that you sent me originally, so let me check and I'll come back to you tomorrow.

wagonza

@_igor_:

Great! Installation works! I'm so excited!!! Thanx a lot!!

edit: second note) unbound works great! ping of hosts inside my LAN works. Name resolution is somewhat slower than before, but thats no problem…

Are you using forwarders or letting Unbound do all the name resolution? Also, is it slow just the 1st time or all the time?

jlepthien

@wagonza:

Ok I gather nothing has changed in your config that you sent me originally, so let me check and I'll come back to you tomorrow.

Yeah, nothing changed in my config. How should I actually use these static dns mappings? Before it was done by dnsmasq and now with Unbound it says that I shouldn't activate the forwarder when using DNSSEC. So how should I configure this?

_igor_

The forwarder is disabled. Unbound does all the job. As i can say - very subjective opinion - it was only the first call, say some minutes slow with every DNS-query, but then its mostly like before. I'm happy. Thats the best description of the actual state.

You did a really great work! Thanx again!

serangku

yup … give it try for now ...
resolve more faster than before

@igor ...
can isee your syslog when firs time boot ?

thanks

wagonza

@jlepthien:

Yeah, nothing changed in my config. How should I actually use these static dns mappings? Before it was done by dnsmasq and now with Unbound it says that I shouldn't activate the forwarder when using DNSSEC. So how should I configure this?

You can use the static dns mappings, its just the upstream DNS servers (forwarders) that it says you should ideally not use unless you are certain that they handle DNSSEC correctly. These static DNS mappings will be created as as local-zone in unbound and the relevant A and PTR record will be configured included a TXT record if you supplied a description.

So a simple dig zone @pfsense_ip will return the A record and a dig -x IP @pfsense_ip will return the PTR record. Likewise can be done for a TXT record.

Hope that answers your question.