Unbound Unbound on subnet router

[Zim]

I have two routers in my network - a main router and a subnet router. I have Unbound running successfully on the main router.

If I run Unbound on the subnet router, will there be any speed or performance benefits for the devices connected to the subnet router resulting from the Unbound cache on the subnet router?

My thinking is any device on the subnet that needs DNS resolution will access the Unbound cache on the subnet router first. If item is not in cache or is stale, then the subnet router will do recursive lookup to resolve the DNS. In theory, it should speed up things, right?


If so, how do I configure Unbound on the subnet router? I installed it on the subnet router, but it seems to be blocking all traffic.


Thanks in advance!

 

[dave14305]

I don’t imagine any advantage with Unbound on the subnet router over dnsmasq on the subnet router using the main router as its upstream server.

 

[Tech9]

In theory, it should speed up things, right?

The built-in dnsmasq is also caching DNS server. If you install Unbound for this - not needed.

 

[Zim]

Thanks @dave14305 and @Tech9 for this. Will stick to Unbound only on the main router.