So the fix to make it work the same would be to add 127.0.0.1 to resolv.conf 
manually?

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> On Jul 11, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Dave Warren <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> On 2014-07-11 10:04, Brian Caouette wrote:
>> Why is it unbound doesn't report dns name for light squid and if I return to 
>> stock it does? In both  of them I have enabled register static mappings yet 
>> unbound doesn't give the time to light squid in the reports were stock does..
> 
> When you use dnsmasq, pfSense adds 127.0.0.1 to the top of resolv.conf, and 
> therefore pfSense itself asks dnsmasq for local resolution and is able to 
> resolve local hostnames.
> 
> However, when you use unbound, dnsmasq is turned off, so pfSense itself is 
> just using your configured DNS servers (or ISP DHCP provided ones, depending 
> on configuration)
> 
> Assuming unbound does full resolution and doesn't forward, you can work 
> around this by listing 127.0.0.1 as your primary DNS resolver in pfSense. 
> However, if you do that, you'll have to make sure that pfSense isn't handing 
> out these DNS servers IPs to clients anywhere (DHCP server? OpenVPN?)
> 
> And if you have unbound forwarding, obviously you can't include 127.0.0.1 or 
> unbound will forward to itself.
> 
> Finally, pointing to 127.0.0.1 will partially break upgrades since pfSense 
> will come up without packages, and therefore without a DNS server, then it 
> will find itself unable to find pfsense.org to download packages.
> 
> Ultimately the fix will be for pfSense to recognize unbound as a local DNS 
> server and add it to resolv.conf by default, similar to dnsmasq.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Warren
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