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    • M Offline
      markn62
      last edited by

      Been running unbound stand-alone for a year before spinning up PfSense a few months ago so well familar with unbound syntax and scripts unless PfSense handles scripts differently.  Never had any issues with my stand-alone install on a separate Win32 box.  I use scripted items because not all of the "essential" arguments are in the PfSense Unbound package GUI such as;

      outgoing range:
      msg-cache-slabs:
      rrset-cache-slabs:
      infra-cache-slabs:
      key-cache-slabs:
      so-rcvbuf:
      so-sndbuf:

      Some how Unbound determined that I want a value of 8192 for outgoing range which is way too high for my 4M ram single core x86 Celeron.  Suppose to be about 800 or unbound is very unstable.  And the slabs were set by the package to be 4 instead of 1 which is also high.  Can't set the sndbuf or rcvbuf value in the GUI either.  So added script arguments are essential in my temporary "in service" box.

      I'll try zero scripts on the new 64-bit box, not yet in service.  Then reinstall the package if necessary and report my findings.
      Thanks.

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        doktornotor Banned
        last edited by

        @markn62:

        Been running unbound stand-alone for a year before spinning up PfSense a few months ago so well familar with unbound syntax and scripts unless PfSense handles scripts differently.

        I seriously mean it's extremely error prone. E.g.:

        
server:; local-zone: "0.0.10.in-addr.arpa." transparent;
server:; local-zone: "88.168.192.in-addr.arpa." transparent;
server:; local-zone: "20.168.192.in-addr.arpa." transparent

        works while putting

        
local-zone: "0.0.10.in-addr.arpa." transparent;
local-zone: "88.168.192.in-addr.arpa." transparent;
local-zone: "20.168.192.in-addr.arpa." transparent

        in custom configuration results in unbound not even starting.

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        • M Offline
          markn62
          last edited by

          You were right dok.  On the AMD64 I trimmed the custom script down, as listed below, so there was no overlap with GUI settings.  I imagine it was choking on one item in the script that isn't like the Win version but no sense in flushing it out.  Package log is working again, yay!

          outgoing-range: 800;
          so-rcvbuf: 1m;
          so-sndbuf: 1m;
          do-ip6: no;
          forward-zone: ;name: ".";
          forward-addr: 8.8.8.8;
          forward-addr: 8.8.4.4;
          forward-addr: 4.2.2.1

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            doktornotor Banned
            last edited by

            I'm much more familiar with BIND, so… maybe some of the devs can comment on the issues, however just reading the unbound docs it appears the conf file syntax is rather unfortunate, with colon used in a ambiguous way (i.e., "Some attributes  have  attributes  inside  them.") causing the whole server, remote-control, stub-zone, forward-zone etc. mess.

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            • M Offline
              markn62
              last edited by

              Thanks for your help Dok…

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              • M Offline
                markn62
                last edited by

                Just got bit by Unbound again.  Got a send buffer overrun so I thought I would bump up an existing custom entry of so-sndbuf from 1M to 4m.  Even though unbound-checkconf said my script was good it apparently wasn't.  The Unbound service refused to start with log errors saying it couldn't communicate with the public recursive servers.  Perhaps the FreeBsd buffer would have to be bumped up in size to avoid this problem, not sure.  But as Dok says, step lightly adding any custom scripts to Unbound, one at a time, test, repeat.

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                • M Offline
                  markn62
                  last edited by

                  Traffic is increasing and I now get regular occurances of the error; "unbound: [91695:0] notice: sendto failed: No buffer space available"  So now I NEED "so-sndbuf: 4m" in the script but the Pfsense Unbound package won't accept it as part of a custom script.

                  Any other method to introduce the script line, and sticky, such that it doesn't stop the Unbound service?  System tunables maybe?

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                  • M Offline
                    markn62
                    last edited by

                    It appears the so-sndbuf option was added in Unbound version 1.4.8.  The PfSense Unbound package is 1.4.20_8.  What gives?

                    Unbound 1.4.8
                    Download: unbound-1.4.8.tar.gz SHA1 checksum: 557a9c10de9a83f88cd7c66d44488f1cb65de4fa SHA256 checksum: 5bf4060d2e778a1268498f4937583726d1d36909d7f40900ee31a722a64d506f Date: 24 January, 2011

                    Features

                    • harden-below-nxdomain config option, default off (because very old software may be incompatible). We could enable it by  default in the future. From draft-vixie-dnsext-resimprove-00.

                    • typetransparent localzone: does not block other RR types.

                    • so-sndbuf option for very busy servers, a bit like so-rcvbuf.

                    Re: http://unbound.net/download.html

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                    • W Offline
                      wagonza
                      last edited by

                      I have added the option so-sndbuf to the latest package update. It also updates Unbound to v1.4.21 - just waiting on the package to be built.
                      It will automatically determine the size for the 2 buffers from the sysctl value 'kern.ipc.maxsockbuf'. This is defaulted to 4MB. So you can change that value to have these buffers adjusted accordingly.

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                      • M Offline
                        markn62
                        last edited by

                        So Wag,
                        Why are band-aids being added to the unbound package?  It's already dumbed down too much as it is. Are you really suggesting that the kern.ipc.maxsockbuf will, in the future release, be used to set the values of outgoing-num-tcp and incoming-num-tcp?  What then if maxsockbuf is set to zero so the incoming and outgoing buffers are also set to zero so that only UDP is responded too by Unbound?  This is what the Unbound, Advanced, web configurator notes suggest.  Does this mean that there will be no UDP buffering with maxsockbuf set to zero?  Perhaps UDP never gets buffered anyway and I need the education.

                        We are already inquiring what packages we want on the wishlist.  How bout we get the existing packages working correctly first.  For starters, how bout fixing the custom scripts section, built into the WebConfigurator, to modify Unbound settings without causing the service to not start.  And how bout http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=68804.0 describing how the outgoing-num-tcp and incoming-num-tcp GUI settings don't change the unbound.conf file.

                        How bout more attention be given these minor fixes working before moving on to greener pastures. Prior to PfSense I ran a stand-alone unbound package that didn't have any issues.  All script commands worked and never reported any errors. The package version appears to be a stripped down Vega, generating regular errors to the unbound.log.  You get it "as is" without much ability to tweak out errors after someone in their infinite wisdom thought the same size fits all.

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                        • M Offline
                          markn62
                          last edited by

                          To boil down this issue, I find if any parameter is in the unbound package configuration you cannot modify it with the custom script.  So to solve this thread, the question that needs to be answered is, "why won't the WebGui allow script entries to modify what is currently in the unbound config?  To make matters worse, some of the GUI field values won't propogate to the unbound.conf.  So there are many values you can't change by script or GUI.

                          So does anyone know where the default config is that the unbound package uses as a starting point and is it editable?  Perhaps this way I can set some unbound parameters as a way to work around these unreasonable limitations.

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                          • M Offline
                            markn62
                            last edited by

                            Any update on the release of Unbound v1.4.21 that modifies how so-sndbuf is handled?  Still seeing ver 1.4.21 on the ackages list, however it installs as 1.4.20 so presumably no fix yet.

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                            • W Offline
                              wagonza
                              last edited by

                              so after all that moaning, is it now working as expected?
                              Of course patches are accepted and bugs are logged on redmine.pfsense.org

                              Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/wagonza
                              http://www.thepackethub.co.za

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                                markn62
                                last edited by

                                Unbound doesn't seem as stable as a package.  The package doesn't work on a 32-bit test box but works for the most part on a 64-bit production box if I ignore the unbound service restarts that happen at least once a day.  To better understand why they're so different, I thought making comparisons between the unbound package and the stand-alone unbound service would be helpful in reaching a solution.  It's called moaning now?

                                
2014-01-26 06:37:53	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:53 unbound: [63663:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.4.20).
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 649 queries, 232 answers from cache, 417 recursions, 16 prefetch
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 11 avg 1.31409 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.082272 sec
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: [25%]=0.025671 median[50%]=0.0479013 [75%]=0.0966887
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 46
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.001024    0.002048 1
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 101
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 131
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 71
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 37
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 25
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.524288    1.000000 5
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: server stats for thread 1: 139 queries, 48 answers from cache, 91 recursions, 4 prefetch
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: server stats for thread 1: requestlist max 5 avg 0.410526 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.094866 sec
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: [25%]=0.0297405 median[50%]=0.0511379 [75%]=0.101581
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 4
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 23
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 33
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 15
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 6
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 9
2014-01-26 06:37:54	Daemon.Info	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:37:54 unbound: [63663:0] info:    0.524288    1.000000 1
2014-01-26 06:38:01	User.Error	192.168.2.1	Jan 26 06:38:01 php: servicewatchdog_cron.php: Service Watchdog detected service unbound stopped. Restarting unbound (Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DN...)

2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.4.20).
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 8980 queries, 3591 answers from cache, 5389 recursions, 285 prefetch
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 13 avg 0.853366 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.395473 sec
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: [25%]=0.0220116 median[50%]=0.0314482 [75%]=0.0603143
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 504
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000256    0.000512 1
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000512    0.001024 2
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.001024    0.002048 3
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.002048    0.004096 2
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.004096    0.008192 9
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.008192    0.016384 23
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 2340
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 1379
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 517
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 358
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 169
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.524288    1.000000 34
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    1.000000    2.000000 6
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    2.000000    4.000000 5
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    4.000000    8.000000 1
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:   16.000000   32.000000 4
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:   32.000000   64.000000 31
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:   64.000000  128.000000 3
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 1: 4942 queries, 1892 answers from cache, 3050 recursions, 170 prefetch
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 1: requestlist max 7 avg 0.408696 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.398189 sec
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: [25%]=0.0222939 median[50%]=0.031751 [75%]=0.0616897
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 277
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.001024    0.002048 1
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.002048    0.004096 1
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.004096    0.008192 2
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.008192    0.016384 5
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 1321
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 771
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 301
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 230
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 95
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.524288    1.000000 19
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    1.000000    2.000000 4
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:    2.000000    4.000000 1
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:   16.000000   32.000000 3
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info:   32.000000   64.000000 19
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Notice	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] notice: Restart of unbound 1.4.20.
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Warning	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] warning: setrlimit: Operation not permitted
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Warning	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] warning: cannot increase max open fds from 11095 to 16458
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Warning	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] warning: continuing with less udp ports: 5512
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Warning	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] warning: increase ulimit or decrease threads, ports in config to remove this warning
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Notice	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] notice: init module 0: validator
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Notice	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] notice: init module 1: iterator
2014-01-27 03:31:00	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 03:31:00 unbound: [2025:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.4.20).

2014-01-27 11:32:13	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: service stopped (unbound 1.4.20).
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: 68 queries, 20 answers from cache, 48 recursions, 4 prefetch
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 0: requestlist max 2 avg 0.173077 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.067424 sec
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: [25%]=0.0227556 median[50%]=0.0352886 [75%]=0.065536
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 5
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 18
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 13
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 5
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 5
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 2
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 1: 664 queries, 209 answers from cache, 455 recursions, 22 prefetch
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: server stats for thread 1: requestlist max 7 avg 1.01258 exceeded 0 jostled 0
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: average recursion processing time 0.074148 sec
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: histogram of recursion processing times
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: [25%]=0.0253615 median[50%]=0.0431843 [75%]=0.0786432
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info: lower(secs) upper(secs) recursions
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.000000    0.000001 32
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.002048    0.004096 1
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.008192    0.016384 1
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.016384    0.032768 146
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.032768    0.065536 151
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.065536    0.131072 55
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.131072    0.262144 45
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.262144    0.524288 20
2014-01-27 11:32:14	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:14 unbound: [2025:0] info:    0.524288    1.000000 5
2014-01-27 11:32:16	Daemon.Notice	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:16 unbound: [95251:0] notice: init module 0: validator
2014-01-27 11:32:16	Daemon.Notice	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:16 unbound: [95251:0] notice: init module 1: iterator
2014-01-27 11:32:16	Daemon.Info	pfsense	Jan 27 11:32:16 unbound: [95251:0] info: start of service (unbound 1.4.20).
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                                  wagonza
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                                  It seems too work for a lot of other users, granted they may not be configuring all the settings and fine tuning the knobs like your installation.

                                  Its called 'moaning' because you go on a tangent about how its dumbed down, the package assumes too much by pre-configuring certain settings, how some settings don't work and getting existing packages working first before embarking on developing new packages. But yet provide nothing useful in terms of bugs logged nor patches.

                                  Thanks though for the information that you have provided so far in this thread. As for the pre-configured settings which ones are incorrect? They were done right in the beginning of the package so some adjustments may be needed.

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                                    Sorry for using the term "dumbed down" rather than "simplified for new users", I suppose that sounds better.  I would log bugs and patches if I understood the process.  I've been using PfSense for about 5 months now so I'm a relatively new user.

                                    On this issue I initially suggested that all native unbound commands be recognized by the GUI custom entry box such that they override the GUI setttings.  Or if this is unacceptable, at least allow custom commands that are not configurable via the GUI.  I could test every unbound command to see if it keeps the service from starting but that would take about a day.  I'm sure someone more familiar could generate a list in a few minutes.

                                    The bigger question is, "what's the goal"?  What can and can't be done with the unbound package script.  So far I'm seeing more interest in using command parameters to generate other command parameters.  In other words, a continuation to keep it simple and automated, rather than improving the ability to troubleshoot performance issues should they arise.  Maybe you can explain why the native commands weren't included in the package.  Is it just the time and effort to provide features that may get little use?

                                    As someone who had been using a stand-alone unbound service with only a script, surely you would expect some moaning when most of the script settings were rejected by PfSense.  It would have been nice to drop in a well tested and stable script rather than use the automated package that restarts now and then.  I may go back to a stand-alone service if I can't resolve the restarts.

                                    Are there other 64-bit users seeing their unbound package perform unattended restarts?  No idea how to troubleshoot this especially with many of the commands unrecognized.  Fortunately the service restarts fairly quick so it doesn't seem to cause much disruption.  However with each occurance the cache is cleared and has to begin rebuilding when the service starts making the package less effective.  I don't save the cache because of the SSD and it adds too much time to a PfSense reboot.

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