DNS Resolver (Unbound) Host Overrides Stopped Working

Xentrk

My host overrides stopped working last night. Wife complained Internet was not working. We had a storm. My gear is hooked up to UPS. I heard them beep two times during the lightning. But power to the house never went down.

Upon my investigation, I saw the WAN iface was down. I rebooted pfSense and it came back up. But Unbound had not started. I was not able to restart it successfully. I looked at the log and saw the message:

May 22 09:11:49 	unbound 	8784:0 	error: local-data in redirect zone must reside at top of zone, not at b.scorecardresearch.com. A 0.0.0.0
May 22 09:11:49 	unbound 	8784:0 	fatal error: Could not set up local zones

Settings:


DNS Resolver is ENABLED
Listen Port: 53
Network Interfaces: LAN
Outgoing Network Interfaces:  My three OpenVPN Clients
System Domain Level Zone Type: Transparent
DNSSEC: checked
DNS Query Forwarding: Unchecked
DHCP Registration: Unchecked
Static DHCP: Unchecked
OpenVPN Clients: Unchecked

I use pfBlockerNG and have these entries in Custom Configuration

log-queries: yes
server:include: /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl.*conf

I have done some searching on the forum and see this error has come up in recent history. Not sure if a bug was introduced in the 2.4.3-RELEASE-p1. I updated to 2.4.3-RELEASE-p1 last week. That is the only change I made recently.

https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=111197.0
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=134675.msg738333#msg738333

I tried changing the

server:include: /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl.*conf
```to

server:include: /var/unbound/pfb_dnsbl.conf

to see if that helps. But it causes pfSense to hang and I have to power cycle the appliance to restore access.

Changing the line above to omit the **server:** per post https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=134675.msg738333#msg738333 also causes the web gui to hang and I need to power cycle the appliance to restore access.

I will keep investigating and report back if I find any information. 

I removed the Host Overrides so I can use the Internet again. 
![host overrides.JPG](/public/_imported_attachments_/1/host overrides.JPG)
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Xentrk

I tried to reenter the Host Overrides every morning after first experiencing the issue. I experienced the error message each time. On day four, I did not experience the error message. It has been five days now and the problem has not returned.