This will guide you through the setup of Pi-hole with a recursive DNS server using Unbound on an installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS as an Unraid Virtual Machine.

• Autostart: Yes
• Name: pihole.20.04vX
• Description: Pi Hole
• CPU Mode: Host Passthrough
• Logical CPUs: 3
• Internal Memory: 1024
• Max Memory: 1024
• Machine: Q35-4.1
• BIOS: OVMF
• USB Controller: 2.0 (EHCI) (I don't have USB 3.0 on current hardware)
• OS Install ISO: select the ubuntu - 20.04 iso
• OS Install CDRom Bus: SATA
• Primary vDisk Location: Auto if on the array, below options for ssd
  • /mnt/disks/samsung_nvme/vms/pihole.20.04vX/vdisk1.img –> This one is vDisk on SSD (Current setup uses this)
  • /dev/disk/by-id/ata-“ID OF DRIVE” –> This one is passthrough
• Primary vDisk Size: 10G
• Primary vDisk Type: raw
• Primary vDisk Bus: VirtIO if on the array, below options for ssd
  • VirtIO –> This one is vDisk on SSD (Current setup uses this)
  • SATA –> This one is passthrough
• Graphics Card: VNC
• VNC Video Driver: QXL (best)
• VNC Password: leave this blank (or set password if concerned folks will get access to unraid!)
• VNC Keyboard: English-United States
• Sound Card: none
• Network MAC: whatever it is
• Network Bridge: br0
• USB Devices: none
• Other PCI Devices: none

• Full Name: Dirk Rockface
• Server: pihole
• User Name: dirk
• Finish installing. I didn't install any “common packages” from the setup CD.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

• In home directory

  mkdir .ssh

• authorized_keys file needs to have keys in them. Copy over from harddrive, external drive, or create them.
• When making keys on clients

  ssh-keygen -t rsa

• New things for keys:
  • So, ssh-keygen no longer creates the keys with the headers on them. Seems to be no big deal for ssh but Cyberduck borked.
  • To make private keys with headers for Cyberduck:

    openssl genrsa -aes128 -out id_rsa 2048
    openssl rsa -in id_rsa -pubout -out id_rsa.test
    ssh-keygen -f id_rsa.test -i -mPKCS8

  • Links:
    • https://rietta.com/blog/2012/01/27/openssl-generating-rsa-key-from-command/
    • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1011572/convert-pem-key-to-ssh-rsa-format

• Turn off Password Auth

  sudo vim /etc/ssh/sshd_config

  UsePAM yes
  PasswordAuthentication no

sudo reboot -h now

curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash

• Select Google (we will remove it later)
• Ok to default “StevenBlock”
• Ok to IPv4 and IPv6
• Yes to Static
• Yes to Web Admin Interface
• Yes to Web Server
• Yes to queries
• Show everything
• Change password

   pihole -a -p password

sudo apt-get install unbound

• write config file

sudo vim /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf

server:
    # If no logfile is specified, syslog is used
    # logfile: "/var/log/unbound/unbound.log"
    verbosity: 0

    interface: 127.0.0.1
    port: 5335
    do-ip4: yes
    do-udp: yes
    do-tcp: yes

    # May be set to yes if you have IPv6 connectivity
    do-ip6: no

    # You want to leave this to no unless you have *native* IPv6. With 6to4 and
    # Terredo tunnels your web browser should favor IPv4 for the same reasons
    prefer-ip6: no

    # Use this only when you downloaded the list of primary root servers!
    # If you use the default dns-root-data package, unbound will find it automatically
    #root-hints: "/var/lib/unbound/root.hints"

    # Trust glue only if it is within the server's authority
    harden-glue: yes

    # Require DNSSEC data for trust-anchored zones, if such data is absent, the zone becomes BOGUS
    harden-dnssec-stripped: yes

    # Don't use Capitalization randomization as it known to cause DNSSEC issues sometimes
    # see https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/unbound-stubby-or-dnscrypt-proxy/9378 for further details
    use-caps-for-id: no

    # Reduce EDNS reassembly buffer size.
    # Suggested by the unbound man page to reduce fragmentation reassembly problems
    edns-buffer-size: 1472

    # Perform prefetching of close to expired message cache entries
    # This only applies to domains that have been frequently queried
    prefetch: yes

    # One thread should be sufficient, can be increased on beefy machines. In reality for most users running on small networks or on a single machine, it should be unnecessary to seek performance enhancement by increasing num-threads above 1.
    num-threads: 1

    # Ensure kernel buffer is large enough to not lose messages in traffic spikes
    so-rcvbuf: 1m

    # Ensure privacy of local IP ranges
    private-address: 192.168.0.0/16
    private-address: 169.254.0.0/16
    private-address: 172.16.0.0/12
    private-address: 10.0.0.0/8
    private-address: fd00::/8
    private-address: fe80::/10

• log into pi-hole
• go to Settings → DNS
• uncheck Google servers and add Custom 127.0.0.1#5335
• Save

• To redirect the root address to /admin, add the following line to /etc/lighttpd/external.conf: (it used to be /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf but it is recommended to use /etc/lighttpd/external.conf so that it isn't overwritten by updates)

url.redirect = ( "^/$" => "/admin" )

• Links:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFtWsZ8IP0
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/4eirjz/is_it_possible_to_forward_a_domain_to_the_pihole/

• Links:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFVYe3riDRA

• Links:
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPfk0qd4xEY
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/d5056q/tutorial_v2_how_to_run_2_pihole_servers_in_ha/