diff --git a/solo/base/Dockerfile b/solo/base/Dockerfile
index 0f074c835..3062d5cf2 100644
--- a/solo/base/Dockerfile
+++ b/solo/base/Dockerfile
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@ FROM ubuntu:trusty
 
 ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
 RUN apt-get update \
-    && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y curl dnsutils zookeeper git mercurial \
+    && apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y curl dnsutils zookeeper git mercurial unbound \
     && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
+ADD unbound-skydns.conf /etc/unbound/unbound.conf
+
 # Install helios-skydns plugin
 ENV SKYDNS_PLUGIN_VERSION 0.1
 ENV SKYDNS_PLUGIN_DEB helios-skydns_${SKYDNS_PLUGIN_VERSION}_all.deb
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ RUN curl -o $SKYDNS_PLUGIN_DEB -L $SKYDNS_PLUGIN_DEB_URI \
     && rm $SKYDNS_PLUGIN_DEB
 
 # Install Go (from the official golang Dockerfile)
-ENV GOLANG_VERSION 1.4.2
+ENV GOLANG_VERSION 1.6
 ENV PATH /go/bin:/usr/local/go/bin:$PATH
 ENV GOPATH /go
 
diff --git a/solo/base/unbound-skydns.conf b/solo/base/unbound-skydns.conf
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9f3f2418b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/solo/base/unbound-skydns.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+server:
+    interface: 0.0.0.0
+    interface: ::0
+    port: 53
+    tcp-upstream: no
+    num-threads: 1
+    incoming-num-tcp: 256
+    outgoing-num-tcp: 256
+    access-control: 0.0.0.0/0 allow
+    do-not-query-localhost: no
+
+forward-zone:
+    name: "."
+    forward-addr: "127.0.0.1@5353"
diff --git a/solo/base/version.txt b/solo/base/version.txt
index bd73f4707..5a2a5806d 100644
--- a/solo/base/version.txt
+++ b/solo/base/version.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.4
+0.6
diff --git a/solo/docker/Dockerfile b/solo/docker/Dockerfile
index 3e0ac7332..29d5ac9ed 100644
--- a/solo/docker/Dockerfile
+++ b/solo/docker/Dockerfile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-FROM spotify/helios-solo-base:0.4
+FROM spotify/helios-solo-base:0.6
 
 EXPOSE 5801
 
diff --git a/solo/docker/start.sh b/solo/docker/start.sh
index eecf54804..4978905a9 100755
--- a/solo/docker/start.sh
+++ b/solo/docker/start.sh
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SKYDNS_PATH=$(echo $HELIOS_NAME|python -c "import sys;h=sys.stdin.read().strip()
 # Write skydns configuration and retry for 30 seconds until successful
 for i in {1..30}; do
 	if curl --retry 30 -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:4001/v2/keys/skydns/config \
-		-d value="{\"dns_addr\":\"0.0.0.0:53\", \"ttl\":3600, \"nameservers\": $NAMESERVERS, \"domain\":\"local.\"}"; then
+		-d value="{\"dns_addr\":\"0.0.0.0:5353\", \"ttl\":3600, \"nameservers\": $NAMESERVERS, \"domain\":\"local.\"}"; then
 		break
 	fi
 	sleep 1
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ curl -XPUT http://127.0.0.1:4001/v2/keys/skydns/${SKYDNS_PATH} \
     -d value="{\"host\":\"$HOST_ADDRESS\"}"
 
 skydns $SKYDNS_OPTS &
+unbound
 
 /usr/share/zookeeper/bin/zkServer.sh start