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      shinzo
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      After installing unbound 1.4.21_3 none of the custom options i am using seem to work anymore.  The error is

      php: config.inc: The command '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/sbin/unbound-control start' returned exit code '1', the output was '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:104: error: syntax error read /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf failed: 1 errors in configuration file [1393437916] unbound[79295:0] fatal error: Could not read config file: /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf'

      When i went into the file it starts on the first line of the custom options, if i remove all the options i have it will boot fine.

      "msg-cache-slabs: 1;rrset-cache-slabs: 1;infra-cache-slabs: 1;key-cache-slabs: 1;outgoing-range: 950;val-clean-additional: yes;harden-glue: yes;do-not-query-localhost: yes;do-ip6: no;use-caps-for-id: no;hide-identity: yes;hide-version: yes"

      the custom options i was using.  I even tried using them one at a time and it still give me the errors.

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        bryan.paradis
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        @shinzo:

        After installing unbound 1.4.21_3 none of the custom options i am using seem to work anymore.  The error is

        php: config.inc: The command '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/sbin/unbound-control start' returned exit code '1', the output was '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:104: error: syntax error read /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf failed: 1 errors in configuration file [1393437916] unbound[79295:0] fatal error: Could not read config file: /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf'

        When i went into the file it starts on the first line of the custom options, if i remove all the options i have it will boot fine.

        "msg-cache-slabs: 1;rrset-cache-slabs: 1;infra-cache-slabs: 1;key-cache-slabs: 1;outgoing-range: 950;val-clean-additional: yes;harden-glue: yes;do-not-query-localhost: yes;do-ip6: no;use-caps-for-id: no;hide-identity: yes;hide-version: yes"

        the custom options i was using.  I even tried using them one at a time and it still give me the errors.

        The options in the configuration file should be like below

        
        option: blah
        option: blah
        option: blah
        
        

        the gui should take the custom options then split them by the delimiter ; then it puts them on a new line for each option

        	# Handle custom options
        	if (!empty($adv_config['custom_options'])) {
        		$custom_options = explode(";", ($adv_config['custom_options']));
        		$unbound_conf .= "\n# Unbound Custom options\n";
        		foreach ($custom_options as $ent)
        			$unbound_conf .= $ent."\n";
        
        

        Is that the line you see exactly in your config file? What are you putting in the advanced options form in the gui?

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          shinzo
          last edited by

          @bryan.paradis:

          @shinzo:

          After installing unbound 1.4.21_3 none of the custom options i am using seem to work anymore.  The error is

          php: config.inc: The command '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/sbin/unbound-control start' returned exit code '1', the output was '/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf:104: error: syntax error read /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf failed: 1 errors in configuration file [1393437916] unbound[79295:0] fatal error: Could not read config file: /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound.conf'

          When i went into the file it starts on the first line of the custom options, if i remove all the options i have it will boot fine.

          "msg-cache-slabs: 1;rrset-cache-slabs: 1;infra-cache-slabs: 1;key-cache-slabs: 1;outgoing-range: 950;val-clean-additional: yes;harden-glue: yes;do-not-query-localhost: yes;do-ip6: no;use-caps-for-id: no;hide-identity: yes;hide-version: yes"

          the custom options i was using.  I even tried using them one at a time and it still give me the errors.

          The options in the configuration file should be like below

          
          option: blah
          option: blah
          option: blah
          
          

          the gui should take the custom options then split them by the delimiter ; then it puts them on a new line for each option

          	# Handle custom options
          	if (!empty($adv_config['custom_options'])) {
          		$custom_options = explode(";", ($adv_config['custom_options']));
          		$unbound_conf .= "\n# Unbound Custom options\n";
          		foreach ($custom_options as $ent)
          			$unbound_conf .= $ent."\n";
          
          

          Is that the line you see exactly in your config file? What are you putting in the advanced options form in the gui?

          I looked over the code and it is the same.  In the advanced options in the gui i have

          "msg-cache-slabs: 1;rrset-cache-slabs: 1;infra-cache-slabs: 1;key-cache-slabs: 1;outgoing-range: 950;val-clean-additional: yes;harden-glue: yes;do-not-query-localhost: yes;do-ip6: no;use-caps-for-id: no;hide-identity: yes;hide-version: yes"  as the semi colon is used to make a new line.

          when i go into the config file, it is being set correctly.

          Unbound Custom options

          msg-cache-slabs: 1
          rrset-cache-slabs: 1
          infra-cache-slabs: 1
          key-cache-slabs: 1
          outgoing-range: 950
          val-clean-additional: yes
          harden-glue: yes
          do-not-query-localhost: yes
          do-ip6: no
          use-caps-for-id: no
          hide-identity: yes
          hide-version: yes

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            markn62
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            @Shinzo,
            What version package were you running prior?  I can tell you outgoing-range as a custom setting, along with a few select others, has never worked in 2.0 or 2.1, see my post @ https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64897.msg352131.html#msg352131 .  I had to strip my custom options down to only forward zone and addresses.  No way to detune unbound.  So you cant really troubleshoot the package by probable trial'n'error if it acts quirky.  Unbound reboots by itself a few times a day on my 64-bit install.  And I've never read anywhere until today that the word "option:" needs to be placed before every custom option entry if I read this thread correctly.  Where is this documented?  I don't use them in my options and the ones I have entered show in the unbound.conf fine.  Can't say if, for example, "option: outgoing-range: 950" would be accepted by unbound but imagine it would get hung up on the pair of colon syntax, although I haven't tried it.

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              shinzo
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              @markn62:

              @Shinzo,
              What version package were you running prior?  I can tell you outgoing-range as a custom setting, along with a few select others, has never worked in 2.0 or 2.1, see my post @ https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,64897.msg352131.html#msg352131 .  I had to strip my custom options down to only forward zone and addresses.  No way to detune unbound.  So you cant really troubleshoot the package by probable trial'n'error if it acts quirky.  Unbound reboots by itself a few times a day on my 64-bit install.  And I've never read anywhere until today that the word "option:" needs to be placed before every custom option entry if I read this thread correctly.  Where is this documented?  I don't use them in my options and the ones I have entered show in the unbound.conf fine.  Can't say if, for example, "option: outgoing-range: 950" would be accepted by unbound but imagine it would get hung up on the pair of colon syntax, although I haven't tried it.

              The "option: blah"  was used as a example of how the output should be.  As i continue to troubleshoot my issue, i removed the 4 previous lines which had to do with the forward-zones and got it up and running, il keep looking

              oh and i was using version 1.4.21_2 and it was on a 2.1.1 box

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                bryan.paradis
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                FILE FORMAT
                      There  must be whitespace between keywords. Attribute keywords end with
                      a colon ':'. An attribute is followed by its containing attributes,  or
                      a value.

                Files  can be included using the include: directive. It can appear any-
                      where, it accepts a single file name as argument.  Processing continues
                      as  if  the text from the included file was copied into the config file
                      at that point.  If also using chroot, using full path  names  for  the
                      included files works, relative pathnames for the included names work if
                      the directory where the daemon is  started  equals  its chroot/working
                      directory.  Wildcards  can  be used  to  include  multiple files, see
                      glob(7).

                Server Options
                      These options are part of the server: clause.

                Looks like the configuration file should be laid out in clause sections full of options as below:

                
                server:
                option: blah
                
                remote-control:
                option: blah
                
                stub-zone:
                option: blah
                
                forward-zone:
                option: blah
                
                

                but it seems that the custom server options are being added after the forward-zone clause. I have moved the code in the unbound.inc file up above the foward-zone code and attached it. Try backing up the unbound.inc and placing the one I have attached in its place.

                unbound.inc.txt

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                  shinzo
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                  #########################

                  Unbound configuration

                  #########################

                  Server config

                  server:
                  chroot: ""
                  username: "unbound"
                  directory: "/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound"
                  pidfile: "/var/run/unbound.pid"
                  harden-referral-path: no
                  prefetch: no
                  prefetch-key: no
                  use-syslog: yes
                  port: 53
                  verbosity: 0
                  do-ip4: yes
                  do-ip6: yes
                  do-udp: yes
                  do-tcp: yes
                  do-daemonize: yes
                  module-config: "validator iterator"
                  unwanted-reply-threshold: 5000000
                  num-queries-per-thread: 512
                  jostle-timeout: 200
                  infra-host-ttl: 900
                  prefetch: no
                  prefetch-key: no
                  infra-cache-numhosts: 15000
                  outgoing-num-tcp: 10
                  incoming-num-tcp: 10
                  edns-buffer-size: 4096
                  statistics-interval: 0
                  extended-statistics: no
                  statistics-cumulative: no
                  cache-max-ttl: 86400
                  cache-min-ttl: 0
                  harden-dnssec-stripped: yes
                  hide-identity: yes
                  hide-version: yes
                  harden-glue: yes
                  num-threads: 4
                  msg-cache-slabs: 4
                  rrset-cache-slabs: 4
                  infra-cache-slabs: 4
                  key-cache-slabs: 4
                  msg-cache-size: 10m
                  rrset-cache-size: 20m
                  outgoing-range: 8192
                  #so-rcvbuf: 4m
                  #so-sndbuf: 4m

                  Interface IP(s) to bind to

                  interface: 192.168.1.1

                  Interfaces to query from

                  outgoing-interface: 192.168.1.1

                  auto-trust-anchor-file: /usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/root-trust-anchor

                  Access Control

                  Local attached networks allowed to utilize service and any user added ACLs

                  access-control: 127.0.0.0/8 allow
                  access-control: ::1 allow
                  access-control: 192.168.1.0/27 allow

                  For DNS Rebinding prevention

                  private-address: 10.0.0.0/8
                  private-address: 172.16.0.0/12
                  private-address: 192.168.0.0/16
                  private-address: 169.254.0.0/16
                  private-address: fd00::/8
                  private-address: fe80::/10

                  Set private domains in case authorative name server returns a RFC1918 IP address

                  Host entries

                  local-zone: "lan" transparent
                  local-data-ptr: "127.0.0.1 localhost"
                  local-data: "localhost A 127.0.0.1"
                  local-data: "localhost.lan A 127.0.0.1"
                  local-data-ptr: "::1 localhost"
                  local-data: "localhost AAAA ::1"
                  local-data: "localhost.lan AAAA ::1"
                  local-data-ptr: "192.168.1.1 peanuts.lan"
                  local-data: "peanuts.lan A 192.168.1.1"
                  local-data: "peanuts A 192.168.1.1"

                  DHCP Reservations

                  /etc/hosts entries

                  Domain overrides

                  #forward-zone:
                  #name: "."
                  #forward-addr: 75.75.75.75
                  #forward-addr: 75.75.76.76

                  Unbound Custom options

                  msg-cache-slabs: 1
                  rrset-cache-slabs: 1
                  infra-cache-slabs: 1
                  key-cache-slabs: 1
                  outgoing-range: 950
                  val-clean-additional: yes
                  harden-glue: yes
                  do-not-query-localhost: yes
                  do-ip6: no
                  use-caps-for-id: no
                  hide-identity: yes
                  hide-version: yes

                  Remote Control Config

                  remote-control:
                  control-enable: yes
                  control-interface: 127.0.0.1
                  control-port: 953
                  server-key-file: "/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound_server.key"
                  server-cert-file: "/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound_server.pem"
                  control-key-file: "/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound_control.key"
                  control-cert-file: "/usr/pbi/unbound-amd64/etc/unbound/unbound_control.pem"

                  thats how my file looks like when its working.  Some of those options are doubled because they weren't there before or i didn't want to manually change the values every time the package was updated.  If i put them in the custom options window, then it will overwrite the default value to what ever i wanted since the custom options are read last

                  thats the output in the status tab when its running.  or do you want the config file?

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                    bryan.paradis
                    last edited by

                    @shinzo:

                    #########################

                    Unbound configuration

                    #########################

                    snip

                    thats how my file looks like when its working.  Some of those options are doubled because they weren't there before or i didn't want to manually change the values every time the package was updated.  If i put them in the custom options window, then it will overwrite the default value to what ever i wanted since the custom options are read last

                    Check my update attachement. I think it is because the custom options are getting put in after the server: clause has been finished because the forward-zones clause has started. Can you test it out to see if it works properly with my changes?

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                      shinzo
                      last edited by

                      sure just need a minute

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                        shinzo
                        last edited by

                        @bryan.paradis:

                        @shinzo:

                        #########################

                        Unbound configuration

                        #########################

                        snip

                        thats how my file looks like when its working.  Some of those options are doubled because they weren't there before or i didn't want to manually change the values every time the package was updated.  If i put them in the custom options window, then it will overwrite the default value to what ever i wanted since the custom options are read last

                        Check my update attachement. I think it is because the custom options are getting put in after the server: clause has been finished because the forward-zones clause has started. Can you test it out to see if it works properly with my changes?

                        yeah that did fix it.

                        it looks like

                        Unbound Custom options

                        msg-cache-slabs: 1
                        rrset-cache-slabs: 1
                        infra-cache-slabs: 1
                        key-cache-slabs: 1
                        val-clean-additional: yes
                        harden-glue: yes
                        do-not-query-localhost: yes
                        do-ip6: no
                        use-caps-for-id: no
                        hide-identity: yes
                        hide-version: yes
                        forward-zone:
                        name: "."
                        forward-addr: 75.75.75.75
                        forward-addr: 75.75.76.76

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                          bryan.paradis
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                          So all the options work correctly now?

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                            markn62
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                            I've never had an issue with forward zones taking.  Bryan, where did you get the syntax document?  Is it for the unbound package or unbound stand-alone, two different animals.  And your work begs another question.  Do the custom options override the GUI settings or cause unbound to not start?

                            Guess I'll have to do some testing myself.  Looks like forward zones no longer make it from the GUI to the config file.  If so, the GUI notes below the custom options box is in need of editing to clarify the syntax required.

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                              shinzo
                              last edited by

                              @bryan.paradis:

                              So all the options work correctly now?

                              yes its working correctly, thank you

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                                wagonza
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                                Yes that was a mistake. Thanks @bryan.paradis. Fix pushed.

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                                  markn62
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                                  I stand corrected, the old syntax is still putting forward zones in the config file.  Options are pushed way down with the recent expansion of reserve leases and hostnames.  Thanks for clarifying the syntax bryan.

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                                    bryan.paradis
                                    last edited by

                                    @markn62:

                                    I've never had an issue with forward zones taking.  Bryan, where did you get the syntax document?  Is it for the unbound package or unbound stand-alone, two different animals.  And your work begs another question.  Do the custom options override the GUI settings or cause unbound to not start?

                                    Guess I'll have to do some testing myself.  Looks like forward zones no longer make it from the GUI to the config file.  If so, the GUI notes below the custom options box is in need of editing to clarify the syntax required.

                                    Forward zones would take but the custom options are being put in the forward zones clause area and not in the server clause area causing errors if you add any.

                                    @markn62:

                                    I stand corrected, the old syntax is still putting forward zones in the config file.  Options are pushed way down with the recent expansion of reserve leases and hostnames.  Thanks for clarifying the syntax bryan.

                                    GUI generates a config file in unbound.inc out of what you fill out which is then what unbound uses. Just like the standalone.

                                    @wagonza:

                                    Yes that was a mistake. Thanks @bryan.paradis. Fix pushed.

                                    :) Your welcome

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                                      markn62
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                                      Thanks for clarifying Bryan.  Wagonza, either it's not installing correctly or the unbound fix broke the service. When I install the package it always fails the first time and shows installed but won't run.  Reboot and reinstall pkg, then unbound starts but doesn't resolve 100%.  Hit'n'miss on the queries.  Some webpages load, via google links all connections would fail.  Had to point router to backup Unbound service on another box.

                                      When I finally get it to install it shows in GUI as 1.4.21_3 just as it does in the available packages list. When I uninstall it the script reports it's uninstalling 1.4.21_1.  Leaving remnants behind?  Also notice watchdog leaves unbound in it's list and fills the log.  Maybe its normal the uninstall wouldn't remove a watchdog entry.

                                      And I'm still not clear when it can't install the unbound pkg from pfsense server that it doesn't use a cached copy of the package from local drive like the pkg installer says it will do.  When unbound acts up its very hard to fix PfSense since all web updates are reliant on it.  I'm going to look into putting unbound on an embedded linux box and forget it as a PfSense package at least until such time as it gets a thorough looking over.

                                      On the bright side, outgoing-num-tcp & incoming-num-tcp GUI entries are now sticky.

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                                        wagonza
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                                        Interesting…looks like you may have remnants of an old package lying around which might be the cause of your problems.
                                        The fact that Watchdog still has it in its list is a good indicator of this.

                                        Sorry you have had problems with the package its been kind(er) to others.
                                        Its going into 2.2 as a replacement for DNSMasq so no longer will it be a package. Might be a better experience for you then.

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                                          doktornotor Banned
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                                          Just noting that I reinstalled unbound multiple times on multiple boxes without any problems whatsoever after the latest batch of commits… So yeah, you probably have some state junk leftovers on your box.

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                                            markn62
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                                            States get reset on reboot, no?  Don't think it's states unless only a state reset will do.  So I should console ipkg list then ipkg remove package.name?  Or is more cleanup needed?

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