On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Petr Menšík via Unbound-users wrote:
Domain suffix should not be necessary. /etc/hosts allows aliases, so you can have line like "10.0.0.1 primary.example.com primary". That would make primary.example.com a primary fully qualified domain name. And "primary." just an alias without matching PTR record.
Would it be a TLD "primary.", or would it be primary.<yourdomainsuffix>. ? It's tricky loading /etc/hosts into a resolver for unqualified entries. I kinda hope that unbound would just ignore them. A quick test shows it will just override a real FQDN. So on my machine with "search nohats.ca" in /etc/resolv.conf, an entry in /etc/hosts for "www" will use whatever is in /etc/hosts and not what is in dns for www.nohats.ca.
It seems to me it could be a special implementation of Cache DB module. I admit I have never tried to use CacheDB module yet.
Not sure if this is worth the energy, when a simple systemctl restart unbound would also reread /etc/hosts. Sure you lose your cache, but I lost that battle a long time before when every interface change results in cache wipe. Paul
