unbound [FR] Listen on Unix Domain Socket instead of TCP/UDP port

[FR] Listen on Unix Domain Socket instead of TCP/UDP port

Open murty2 opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

Is it possible to configure Unbound to listen on Unix Domain Socket, instead of tcp/udp port? I use Unbound on my local machine only

Feb 27 '22 07:02 murty2

The DNS client(dig, nslookup, etc) does not support Unix Domain Socket.

Mar 21 '22 03:03 JiangHeng12138

My DNS client (OpenLiteSpeed webserver) does

Mar 21 '22 05:03 murty2

A use case for that:

Adguard home or Pi-hole asks Unbound via Unix Domain socket instead of a TCP/UDP port, thus killing any possible overhead.

Apr 07 '22 15:04 DavidOsipov

I also have the same idea. When Unbound is used as an upstream for other DNS server programs, this is a very good feature.

Apr 28 '23 02:04 kkkgo