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Archive => 21.7 Legacy Series => Topic started by: lshantz on December 06, 2021, 07:44:38 pm

Title: Unbound DNS: Internal devices resolving to gateway or WAN IP address
Post by: lshantz on December 06, 2021, 07:44:38 pm

This is a strange one and I know I shot myself in the foot, but not sure how to unwind it.

I was having trouble with all of these stupid devices that have hard coded DNS entries and fail to reach out since    I forced all DNS queries to my unbound. I even have a Chinese camera if it can't phone home it will shut itself off. So... I read where I can redirect these devices to my unbound DNS server. Great! Well not so fast.

I set it up following the instructions and now I get constant "the DNS query name does not exist" If I do an Nslookup  or ping, it is resolving to the WAN IP address, or if I use the FQDN it will report back the gateway address. NOT the device IP address. It is probably an easy fix, but I'm stumped.

Title: Re: Unbound DNS: Internal devices resolving to gateway or WAN IP address
Post by: lshantz on December 07, 2021, 06:00:55 pm

So it seems that some devices show up with correct IP addresses and some do not. I'm still trying to filter through what I'm seeing, but an nslookup for a device returns:
nslookup xx
Server:         127.0.0.1
Address:        127.0.0.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   xx
Address: WAN address here, instead of the device IP.

I am wondering if I need to change The Unbound/General/localzonetype to something other than transparent.