[tor-talk] Using unbound to resolve .onion domains

Tom van der Woerdt info at tvdw.eu
Mon Sep 11 10:16:23 UTC 2017


Looks fine, you're getting NXDOMAIN, not SERVFAIL.

What do you expect a DNS query for a .onion to return?


Op 11/09/2017 om 11:23 schreef C. L. Martinez:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I am trying to figure out the best way to handle DNS requests to both clearnet and Tor onionland. Currently, I am using two virtual machines (both FreeBSD 11 based): one used as my internal DNS resolver and the other is a FreeBSD's tor gateway.
> 
>  My unbound.conf's file in my internal DNS (unbound) is:
> 
> server:
> 	do-tcp: no
> 	do-not-query-localhost: no
>         domain-insecure: "onion"
>         private-domain: "onion"
> 
> forward-zone:
>         name: "onion"
>         forward-addr: 172.22.56.4 at 1053
> 
>  And my FreeBSD's Tor gateway (172.22.56.4) is running Tor's DNS resolver:
> 
> USER     COMMAND    PID   FD PROTO  LOCAL ADDRESS         FOREIGN ADDRESS      
> _tor     tor        89238 5  tcp4   127.0.0.1:9050        *:*
> _tor     tor        89238 6  udp4   *:1053                *:*
> _tor     tor        89238 7  tcp4   127.0.0.1:9040        *:*
> root     sendmail   40917 4  tcp4   127.0.0.1:25          *:*
> root     sshd       47802 4  tcp4   172.22.56.4:22        *:*
> 
>  .. but If I try to resolve any .onion domain from my Unbound's internal DNS server it doesn't works:
> 
> Server:         127.0.0.1
> Address:        127.0.0.1#53
> 
> ** server can't find protonirockerxow.onion: NXDOMAIN
> 
>  Any idea?? What is it wrong with my config?
> 
> Thanks.
> 


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