On Wed, 22 Oct 2025, A. Schulze via Unbound-users wrote:
[...]I would like to configure Unbound as a DNS forwarder with Quad9 as the upstream recursive resolver. [...][...]But if you forward any queries to one destination anyway, I see no value for qname-minimization.So, yes quad9's suggestion sounds right to me.
Concur. Presumably the forwarded query is sent with RD, expecting the upstream to perform recursion. qname-minimization doesn't really apply.
-- Fred Morris
