unbound
brew install unboundValidating, recursive, caching DNS resolver
License: BSD-3-Clause
Development: Pull requests
Formula JSON API: /api/formula/unbound.json
Formula code: unbound.rb on GitHub
Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:
| macOS on Apple Silicon |
golden gate | ✅ |
|---|---|---|
| tahoe | ✅ | |
| sequoia | ✅ | |
| Linux | ARM64 | ✅ |
| x86_64 | ✅ |
Current versions:
| stable | ✅ | 1.26.2 |
| head | ⚡️ | HEAD |
Depends on:
| libevent | 2.1.13 | Asynchronous event library |
| libnghttp2 | 1.71.0 | HTTP/2 C Library |
| openssl@4 | 4.1.0 | Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit |
Uses from macOS: expat
Binaries:
unbound,
unbound-anchor,
unbound-checkconf,
unbound-control,
unbound-control-setup,
unbound-host
Service:
| Start now and at startup: | sudo brew services start unbound |
| Run directly: | $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/opt/unbound/sbin/unbound -d -c $HOMEBREW_PREFIX/etc/unbound/unbound.conf |
GitHub Packages downloads:
| Last 30 days | 202,430 |
|---|---|
| Downloads | 43,963,064 |
| Analytics install events (30 days) | 21,471 |
| Downloads / install events (30 days) | 9.4× |
Source: GitHub Packages, fetched 2026-11-12T00:51:54Z. Analytics dates: 2026-10-13 to 2026-11-12. Totals exclude downloads from Bintray before the migration to GitHub Packages. Downloads and install attempts measure different things; the difference does not count analytics opt-outs. Definitions and limitations.
Analytics:
| 30 days | 90 days | 365 days | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Installs | 21,451 | 57,501 | 694,621 |
Installs (--HEAD) | 20 | 42 | 216 |
| Installs on Request | 10,415 | 23,856 | 135,891 |
Installs on Request (--HEAD) | 20 | 42 | 210 |
| Build Errors | 0 |