Domains spamming pihole v6.1.4 - anyway to stop this?

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Expected Behaviour:

Stop IoT devices from ‘phoning home’ all the time - swamping pihole query logs with ‘baidu.com’

My IoT devices don’t have a manual way of setting a DNS, so they naturally pick up pihole DNS IP’s (from DHCP) - but they’re spamming pihole because they try and contact baidu.com every minute or so. I was wondering if there is a way to stop such records from appearing in the query logs within pihole (v6.1.4)

Actual Behaviour:

Baidu.com is being contacted every minute or so by my Lubluelu robot vacuums.

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Debug Token:

Replace this text with the debug token provided from running pihole -d

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Expert mode / All settings / webserver.api.excludeDomain

^*\baidu\.com$

Expert mode / All settings / webserver.api.excludeClients

^10\.7\.2\.7$

^10\.7\.2\.6$

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Thanks Smurf. So I guess the first regex excludes the domains from showing in the queries and the second one would exclude the entire device?

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I had to tweak the regex a little, but this worked:

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Thanks for your help.