diff --git a/net-dns/unbound/files/unbound-r2.initd b/net-dns/unbound/files/unbound-r2.initd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fadd4cbc73cf9
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+++ b/net-dns/unbound/files/unbound-r2.initd
@@ -0,0 +1,141 @@
+#!/sbin/openrc-run
+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+UNBOUND_BINARY=${UNBOUND_BINARY:-"/usr/sbin/unbound"}
+UNBOUND_CACHEFILE=${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE:-"/var/lib/unbound/${SVCNAME}.cache"}
+UNBOUND_CHECKCONF=${UNBOUND_CHECKCONF:-"/usr/sbin/unbound-checkconf"}
+UNBOUND_CONFFILE=${UNBOUND_CONFFILE:-"/etc/unbound/${SVCNAME}.conf"}
+UNBOUND_CONTROL=${UNBOUND_CONTROL:-"/usr/sbin/unbound-control"}
+UNBOUND_PIDFILE=${UNBOUND_PIDFILE:-"/run/unbound.pid"}
+UNBOUND_SSDARGS=${UNBOUND_SSDARGS:-"--wait 1000"}
+UNBOUND_TERMTIMEOUT=${UNBOUND_TERMTIMEOUT:-"TERM/25/KILL/5"}
+UNBOUND_OPTS=${UNBOUND_OPTS:-""}
+UNBOUND_LOAD_CACHE_TIMEOUT=${UNBOUND_LOAD_CACHE_TIMEOUT:-"30"}
+
+getconfig() {
+	local key="$1"
+	local value_default="$2"
+	local value=
+
+	if service_started ; then
+		value="$(service_get_value "${key}")"
+	fi
+
+	if [ -z "${value}" ] && [ -n "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}" ] && [ -r "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}" ] ; then
+		value=$("${UNBOUND_CHECKCONF}" -o ${key} "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}")
+	fi
+
+	if [ -z "${value}" ] ; then
+		# Value not explicitly set in the configfile or configfile does not exist
+		# or is not readable
+		echo "${value_default}"
+	else
+		echo "${value}"
+	fi
+
+	return 0
+}
+
+command=${UNBOUND_BINARY}
+command_args="${UNBOUND_OPTS} -c \"${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}\""
+start_stop_daemon_args="${UNBOUND_SSDARGS}"
+pidfile="$(getconfig pidfile /run/unbound.pid)"
+retry="${UNBOUND_TERMTIMEOUT}"
+
+required_files="${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}"
+
+name="unbound daemon"
+extra_commands="configtest"
+extra_started_commands="reload save_cache"
+description="unbound is a Domain Name Server (DNS) that is used to resolve host names to IP address."
+description_configtest="Run syntax tests for configuration files only."
+description_reload="Kills all children and reloads the configuration."
+description_save_cache="Saves the current cache to disk."
+
+depend() {
+	use net logger
+	provide dns
+	after auth-dns
+}
+
+configtest() {
+	local _config_status=
+
+	ebegin "Checking ${SVCNAME} configuration"
+	"${UNBOUND_CHECKCONF}" "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}" 1>/dev/null 2>&1
+	_config_status=$?
+
+	if [ ${_config_status} -ne 0 ] ; then
+		# Run command again but this time we will show the output
+		# Ugly, but ...
+		"${UNBOUND_CHECKCONF}" "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}"
+	else
+		if [ -n "${UNBOUND_PRESERVE_CACHE}" ] ; then
+			local _is_control_enabled=$(getconfig control-enable no)
+			if [ "${_is_control_enabled}" != "yes" ] ; then
+				eerror "Cannot preserve cache: control-enable is 'no' in the config file!"
+				_config_status=2
+			fi
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	eend ${_config_status} "failed, please correct errors above"
+}
+
+save_cache() {
+	if [ "${RC_CMD}" != "restart" ] ; then
+		UNBOUND_PRESERVE_CACHE=1 configtest || return 1
+	fi
+
+	ebegin "Saving cache to '${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}'"
+	${UNBOUND_CONTROL} -c "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}" dump_cache > "${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}"
+	eend $?
+}
+
+start_pre() {
+	if [ "${RC_CMD}" != "restart" ] ; then
+		configtest || return 1
+	fi
+}
+
+start_post() {
+	if [ -n "${UNBOUND_PRESERVE_CACHE}" ] ; then
+		if [ -s "${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}" ] ; then
+			ebegin "Loading cache from '${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}'"
+			# Loading cache can fail which would block this runscript.
+			# Using `timeout` from coreutils will be our safeguard ...
+			if timeout -k 5 ${UNBOUND_LOAD_CACHE_TIMEOUT} ${UNBOUND_CONTROL} -q -c "${UNBOUND_CONFFILE}" load_cache < "${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}"; then
+				# delete successfully loaded cache to prevent a stale cache being loaded after a system crash
+				# bug #980712
+				rm -f "${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}"
+			fi
+			eend $?
+		else
+			ewarn "Loading cache from '${UNBOUND_CACHEFILE}' skipped: File does not exists or is empty!"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	# It is not a fatal error if preserved cache could not be loaded
+	return 0
+}
+
+stop_pre() {
+	if [ "${RC_CMD}" = "restart" ] ; then
+		configtest || return 1
+	fi
+
+	if [ -n "${UNBOUND_PRESERVE_CACHE}" ] ; then
+		save_cache
+	fi
+
+	# It is not a fatal error if cache cannot be preserved
+	return 0
+}
+
+reload() {
+	configtest || return 1
+	ebegin "Reloading ${SVCNAME}"
+	start-stop-daemon --signal HUP --pidfile "${pidfile}"
+	eend $?
+}
diff --git a/net-dns/unbound/unbound-1.25.2-r1.ebuild b/net-dns/unbound/unbound-1.25.2-r1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..2695aefa0eafe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/net-dns/unbound/unbound-1.25.2-r1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2026 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{11..14} )
+VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/nlnetlabs.asc
+inherit autotools flag-o-matic python-single-r1 systemd verify-sig multilib-minimal
+
+MY_P=${PN}-${PV/_/}
+DESCRIPTION="A validating, recursive and caching DNS resolver"
+HOMEPAGE="https://unbound.net/ https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/"
+SRC_URI="
+	https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/${MY_P}.tar.gz
+	verify-sig? ( https://nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/unbound/${MY_P}.tar.gz.asc )
+"
+S="${WORKDIR}"/${MY_P}
+
+LICENSE="BSD GPL-2"
+SLOT="0/8" # ABI version of libunbound.so
+if [[ ${PV} != *_rc* ]] ; then
+	KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc ~x86"
+fi
+IUSE="debug dnscrypt dnstap +ecdsa ecs gost +http2 python redis selinux static-libs systemd test +tfo"
+REQUIRED_USE="python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )"
+RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
+
+# Note: expat is needed by executable only but the Makefile is custom
+# and doesn't make it possible to easily install the library without
+# the executables. MULTILIB_USEDEP may be dropped once build system
+# is fixed.
+DEPEND="
+	acct-group/unbound
+	acct-user/unbound
+	>=dev-libs/expat-2.1.0-r3[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-libs/libevent-2.0.21:0=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1h-r2:0=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	dnscrypt? ( dev-libs/libsodium:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	dnstap? (
+		dev-libs/fstrm[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+		>=dev-libs/protobuf-c-1.0.2-r1:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	ecdsa? (
+		dev-libs/openssl:0[-bindist(-)]
+	)
+	http2? ( net-libs/nghttp2:=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}] )
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	redis? ( dev-libs/hiredis:= )
+	systemd? ( sys-apps/systemd )
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+	python? ( dev-lang/swig )
+	test? (
+		net-libs/ldns[examples(-)]
+		dev-util/splint
+		app-text/wdiff
+	)
+	verify-sig? ( >=sec-keys/openpgp-keys-nlnetlabs-20260101 )
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+	net-dns/dnssec-root
+	selinux? ( sec-policy/selinux-bind )
+"
+
+QA_CONFIG_IMPL_DECL_SKIP=(
+	ioctlsocket # not on Linux (bug #900060)
+)
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.5.7-trust-anchor-file.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.6.3-pkg-config.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.10.1-find-ar.patch
+)
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	eautoreconf
+
+	# Required for the python part
+	multilib_copy_sources
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	[[ ${CHOST} == *-darwin* ]] || append-ldflags -Wl,-z,noexecstack
+	multilib-minimal_src_configure
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	local myeconfargs=(
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable debug)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable gost)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable dnscrypt)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable dnstap)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable ecdsa)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable ecs subnet)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable redis cachedb)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable static-libs static)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable systemd)
+		$(multilib_native_use_with python pythonmodule)
+		$(multilib_native_use_with python pyunbound)
+		$(multilib_native_use_with http2 libnghttp2)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable tfo tfo-client)
+		$(multilib_native_use_enable tfo tfo-server)
+
+		--disable-flto
+		--disable-rpath
+		--enable-event-api
+		--enable-ipsecmod
+
+		--with-libevent="${ESYSROOT}"/usr
+		$(multilib_native_usex redis --with-libhiredis="${ESYSROOT}/usr" --without-libhiredis)
+
+		--with-pidfile="${EPREFIX}"/run/unbound.pid
+		--with-rootkey-file="${EPREFIX}"/etc/dnssec/root-anchors.txt
+		--with-ssl="${ESYSROOT}"/usr
+		--with-libexpat="${ESYSROOT}"/usr
+
+		# http://unbound.nlnetlabs.nl/pipermail/unbound-users/2011-April/001801.html
+		# $(use_enable debug lock-checks)
+		# $(use_enable debug alloc-checks)
+		# $(use_enable debug alloc-lite)
+		# $(use_enable debug alloc-nonregional)
+	)
+
+	econf "${myeconfargs[@]}"
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+	systemd_dounit contrib/unbound.service
+	systemd_dounit contrib/unbound.socket
+	systemd_dounit contrib/unbound_portable.service
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	use python && python_optimize
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/unbound-r2.initd unbound
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/unbound-r1.confd unbound
+
+	systemd_newunit "${FILESDIR}"/unbound-anchor-r1.service unbound-anchor.service
+
+	dodoc doc/{README,CREDITS,TODO,Changelog,FEATURES}
+	dodoc contrib/{unbound_munin_,metrics.awk}
+
+	docinto selinux
+	dodoc contrib/selinux/*
+
+	exeinto /usr/share/${PN}
+	doexe contrib/{update-anchor.sh,unbound_cache.sh}
+
+	# Create space for auto-trust-anchor-file eventually
+	# downloaded by unbound-anchor
+	keepdir /etc/unbound/var
+	fowners root:unbound /etc/unbound/var
+	fperms 0770 /etc/unbound/var
+
+	# Used to store cache data
+	keepdir /var/lib/${PN}
+	fowners root:unbound /var/lib/${PN}
+	fperms 0770 /var/lib/${PN}
+
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+	if ! use static-libs ; then
+		find "${ED}" -name "*.a" -delete || die
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	if [[ ! -f "${EROOT}/etc/unbound/unbound_control.key" ]]; then
+		einfo "Trying to create unbound control key ..."
+		if ! unbound-control-setup &>/dev/null ; then
+			ewarn "Failed to create unbound control key!"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	if [[ ! -f "${EROOT}/etc/unbound/var/root-anchors.txt" ]]; then
+		einfo ""
+		einfo "If you want unbound to automatically update the root-anchor file for DNSSEC validation"
+		einfo "set 'auto-trust-anchor-file: ${EROOT}/etc/unbound/var/root-anchors.txt' in ${EROOT}/etc/unbound/unbound.conf"
+		einfo "and run"
+		einfo ""
+		einfo "  su -s /bin/sh -c '${EROOT}/usr/sbin/unbound-anchor -a ${EROOT}/etc/unbound/var/root-anchors.txt' unbound"
+		einfo ""
+		einfo "as root to create it initially before starting unbound for the first time after enabling this."
+		einfo ""
+		einfo "If using systemd you may also enable the unbound-anchor.service"
+	fi
+
+	# Our user is not available on prefix
+	use prefix && return
+
+	local _perm_check_testfile=$(mktemp --dry-run "${EPREFIX}"/etc/unbound/var/.pkg_postinst-perm-check.XXXXXXXXX)
+	su -s /bin/sh -c "touch ${_perm_check_testfile}" unbound &>/dev/null
+	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
+		ewarn "WARNING: unbound user cannot write to \"${EPREFIX}/etc/unbound/var\"!"
+		ewarn "Run the following commands to restore default permission:"
+		ewarn ""
+		ewarn "    chown root:unbound ${EPREFIX}/etc/unbound/var"
+		ewarn "    chmod 0770 ${EPREFIX}/etc/unbound/var"
+	else
+		# Cleanup -- no reason to die here!
+		rm -f "${_perm_check_testfile}"
+	fi
+}