# Pihole with unbound shows status: SERVFAIL on dig pi-hole.net @127.0.0.1 -p 5335....Please Help fix this problem

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**Created:** [January 21, 2023, 7:12am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-with-unbound-shows-status-servfail-on-dig-pi-hole-net-127-0-0-1-p-5335-please-help-fix-this-problem/60660 "2023-01-21T07:12:57Z")
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### Author: ![wd9895](https://discourse-cdn.pi-hole.net/user_avatar/discourse.pi-hole.net/wd9895/32/54849_2.png) [@wd9895](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/u/wd9895)
#### Post date: [January 21, 2023, 4:10pm UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/pihole-with-unbound-shows-status-servfail-on-dig-pi-hole-net-127-0-0-1-p-5335-please-help-fix-this-problem/60660/7 "2023-01-21T16:10:30Z")

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> [@Dnsmasq: reply error is SERVFAIL](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/dnsmasq-reply-error-is-servfail/60121):
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> The issue I am facing: I've been running a raspberry pi for almost a year now, with unbound. Yesterday I did an apt update/upgrade and things were still working fine, but then this morning, DNS started failing and returning SERVFAIL. I spent about two hours following forums with similar issues, double checking configurations, re-installing packages, updating pihole, nothing solved it. But then when I turned on level 4 logging on unbound, it magically started working! I then turned level 4 l…

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