Maintained by: NLnet Labs

About Unbound

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver.

The C implementation of Unbound is developed and maintained by NLnet Labs. It is based on ideas and algorithms taken from a java prototype developed by Verisign labs, Nominet, Kirei and ep.net.

Unbound is designed as a set of modular components, so that also DNSSEC (secure DNS) validation and stub-resolvers (that do not run as a server, but are linked into an application) are easily possible.

The source code is under a BSD License.

Download

The latest source code tarball is available for download.

Bugs

Report bugs using bugzilla here.

Mailing List

You can subscribe to the unbound users mailing list here.

Browse the archives of unbound-users.

Maintenance and Support

Unbound is being maintained by NLnet Labs, a not for profit, public benefit foundation. Problems can be reported through the bugzilla webinterface. In the case we stop supporting the product we will announce such two years in advance.

Commercial support for Unbound is available from several organizations.

Code Repository

The repository for unbound is available at http://unbound.nlnetlabs.nl/svn/.

The development tree is located in trunk/.

User Groups

The Japan Unbound Users Group () provides documentation and support in Japanese.

News

Release 1.4.15

Thu Jan 26 10:14:12 CET 2012
Version 1.4.15 of unbound has been released.

Release 1.4.14

Mon Dec 19 12:19:16 CET 2011
Version 1.4.14 of unbound has been released.

Unbound VU#209659 CVE-2011-4528

Mon Dec 19 12:19:15 CET 2011
Unbound denial of service vulnerabilities from nonstandard redirection and denial of existence VU#209659 CVE-2011-4528

Release 1.4.13

Thu Sep 15 09:33:38 CEST 2011
Version 1.4.13 of unbound has been released.

Release 1.4.12

Thu Jul 14 10:52:49 CEST 2011
Version 1.4.12 of unbound has been released.

Release 1.4.11

Thu Jun 30 10:00:26 CEST 2011
Version 1.4.11 of unbound has been released.

Release 1.4.10

Wed May 25 08:05:31 CEST 2011
Version 1.4.10 of unbound has been released.

HowTo set up DNSSEC validation

Thu Apr 7 14:01:39 CEST 2011
Describes use of unbound-anchor and auto updates for the root trust anchor.