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Show Unbound stats in terminal

Unbound is a fantastic piece of linux software for querying and caching DNS requests, to get stats about it’s utilisation you just have to use unbound-control :

  • Type in Terminal :
sudo unbound-control -c /etc/unbound/unbound.conf stats_noreset | grep total.num
  • Exemple output :
total.num.queries=43607
total.num.queries_ip_ratelimited=0
total.num.cachehits=11913
total.num.cachemiss=31694
total.num.prefetch=3162
total.num.expired=0
total.num.recursivereplies=31694

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