I installed Pi-hole in official way in my Debian Trixie. Everything works fine. But when I enter the Pi-hole UI in my browser, I am checking the Queries and seeing my computer made a connection to pimylifeup.com even though I didn’t enter that site. What is the problem? Is it expected?
It is unlikely this has anything to do with installing Pi-hole, other than you can now see such queries. My refreshed Raspberry Pi with Pi-hole v6 has been running with Trixie since November 2025 with no such domain in the logs. If you didn’t actively navigate to that domain, it’s likely some other site that you loaded did.
Maybe your browser is pre-loading some pages.
Some browsers tries to predict (based on various heuristics and statistics) if you will probably visit a page and then loads the page on the background, to speed up the page load.
In this case, some DNS queries will happen, even if you never visit the page.
This is called Speculative loading.
Also read this Chrome article: Prerender pages in Chrome for instant page navigations | Web Platform | Chrome for Developers
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Yes. I was entering the Pi-hole interface by writing “pi..”. And it looks like I entered that pimylifeup.com site before. Firefox just does that. I tried different addresses and same happens. Thanks.
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