unbound not updating blocklist

[Simon1]

OPNsense 24.7.11_2-amd64
Unbound 1.22.0_1

I just found that unbound did not update its DNS blocklist: My /var/unbound/data/dnsbl.json was from January this year

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root@OPNsense:/var/unbound/data # ls -l dnsbl*
-rw-r-----  1 unbound unbound 66960956 Jan 29  2024 dnsbl.json
-rw-r--r--  1 unbound unbound        7 Dec 30 16:17 dnsbl.size
I'm not sure why and nothing in the logs points out it was even trying to. I disabled the blocklist feature and hit apply

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-rw-r-----  1 root    unbound        0 Dec 30 16:41 dnsbl.json
-rw-r--r--  1 unbound unbound        7 Dec 30 16:17 dnsbl.sizeNotice now the file is owned by root.

I then re-enabled the feature, which prompted opnsense to download the blocklists without issue.

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-rw-r-----  1 root    unbound 63827058 Dec 30 16:42 dnsbl.json
-rw-r--r--  1 unbound unbound        7 Dec 30 16:42 dnsbl.size

Just leaving this here since for reference, since I can't rule out that I did something wrong so that I'm the culprit :D

[juanzelli]

You may need to create a cron job to handle it

[Simon1]

Youre right: https://docs.opnsense.org/manual/unbound.html#blocklists