iPhone pinging mask.icloud.com with Private Relay turned off

Does anyone know why iPhone ping mask.icloud.com and mask-h2.icloud.com even with Private Relay, Private Wi-Fi address, and Limit IP Address Tracking turned off? What could be causing it?

I guess it's a design decision in iOS. Mine does the same and I don't have iCloud+. The results from those lookups normally provide a list of IPs that the iPhone can use to make a secure connection. If it's blocked, as with Pi-hole, it knows not to use it on that network.

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In addition to the reply by chrislph, I would recommend you visit the Apple forums. Apple does mysterious things with DNS requests. I don't think you are seeing anything abnormal.

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