I have (the stock*) Unbound running on FreeBSD 10. I have unbound-control setup on the Unbound server itself and am successfully controlling via localhost.

But I have another machine connected to the server via a backend connection on the 10.x.x.x private network. I want to run unbound-control on that machine and control the remote (albeit one backend hop away) server.

I've been looking at docs and tutorials, and it's not clear what has to be configured where for this scenario.

I've run unbound-control on the remote client and it complains that I have no unbound.conf file. But is that file ONLY for the configuration of a server? Would I need to have an unbound.conf file on the client machine?

A couple things are not clear to me... Do I run unbound-control-setup on the client machine? I assume I'd have to copy keys to the server? But if so, how do I store them and refer to them without breaking my localhost control for unbound-control on the server itself?

I tried adding 'control-interface: <server backend IP>' to the remote-control section of unbound.conf on the server. I interpreted this to be that it should listen for control connections on that interface. But I got:

[1463783089] unbound-control[83533:0] error: connect: Connection refused for 
<server IP>


I suppose I might have some firewall concerns. But before I go off on that tangent, I'd just like to get straight:

1) Do I run unbound-control on the client machine?
2) What should I have in unbound.conf on the client machine (if at all)?
3) What should I have in unbound.conf on the server?
4) What key exchanging and referencing (in config files) do I need to keep control with unbound-control going on both the remote client and localhost?

TIA



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