Hi, I'm using pi-hole, with unbound, as a recursive DNS server, and as the DHCP server. My Windows 11 PC is continually sending DNS queries for pi.hole (both IPv4 and IPv6) (about 15 every second). The pi-hole is answering every query with the IP addresses, but the queries just continue. I assum…

Ohhh... wait. I think you are seeing normal requests (AJAX calls), when accessing it using pi.hole domain name. Firefox seems to be querying the domain for every single request. Try to access the web interface via IP. Does the number of queries drop?

PC flooding pi-hole with DNS queries for pi.hole

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deHakkelaar February 4, 2024, 6:19pm 10

You could try below below to see if it reduces the number of queries when accessing by name instead of IP (dnsmasq is embedded into the pihole-FTL binary):