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Unbound in one click.

Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching dns resolver you can run on your own machine. Launch it in Even Stacks in one click, serve it over trusted HTTPS, and let your AI agents operate it.

What is Unbound?

Unbound is a validating, recursive, and caching DNS resolver developed by NLnet Labs. It supports DNSSEC validation and is designed for high performance and secure DNS resolution.

CategoryNetwork
Default port5335
Container imagemvance/unbound:1.21.1

Run Unbound in Even

Even Stacks launches Unbound as a managed container on your own machine. No compose files, no manual setup.

  1. Open the Even Stacks panel in Even. The container engine starts on demand.
  2. Find Unbound in the one-click services and click Launch.
  3. Even pulls the image, starts it on port 5335, and serves it over trusted HTTPS at https://unbound.localhost.

Drive Unbound with your AI agents

Even ships an MCP, so any agent you run inside Even (Claude Code, Codex, and more) can operate Unbound directly, at both the UI level and the container level.

Through the Even MCP an agent can run commands inside it, check its status and logs, and reconfigure it. It runs commands inside the container, reads its logs, and for web apps opens and clicks through the interface in Even's own browser pane. Ask once, for example "set up Unbound and get it ready", and the agent handles it end to end.

How agents reach it: Point DNS clients at this host on port 53. Run docker exec <container> unbound-control stats for query statistics and unbound-control reload to apply config changes without restarting. The main config file is at /opt/unbound/etc/unbound/unbound.conf.

More Network services

Other one-click services you can launch in Even Stacks.