Looking pihole requests logs, there are quite frequent and multiple IPV4 or IPV6 requests from main computer (192.168.0.51) to resolve pihole.local domain:
resolution should be quite sparse except if something is incorrect in pihole answer ?
Logs are flooded
(moderator edit: explicit debug log removed)
For your own privacy and safety, don't post your unsanitised debug log publically. We only ask for the token displayed after uploading the log has completed.
Pi-hole is just dutifully reporting those requests as observed.
You'd have to investigate your client why it would send excessive requests for that domain.
It's also unusual that a client would send DNS requests for .local domains at all, as .local is the TLD reserved for mDNS protocol usage. As those domains are to be handled by mDNS, they should never show up in Pi-hole's Query Log.
I have noticed something similar when accessing my routers from a browser by hostname only. Pi-hole will get many requests, one or more per second, while the web page is loaded in a tab. The openwrt-based router does page refreshes to display the status of wifi connected devices. I have defined their hostnames in dns.hosts and wonder if the ttl for the lookup is set to something very low, if at all. I have just accepted this flood of requests and I try not to keep the refreshing pages loaded very long…but they do cause a spike in requests from the machine from which I’m browsing. Edit: It also appears to NOT do that if I use a FQDN for the requests.
Hello.
Thanks for indication in log policy!
Yes, i think pihole just report the requests, that’s while i was wondering if something could drive the host (it is a windows11 computer ) would repeat it, for example if something in answer is not correct.
I agree i need to investigate client sending the request, but maybe someone knew about this topic already.
is mDNS performed by pihole itself ?
I wonder if my router would also answer local ip name, maybe conflicting.
I'm guessing here, but maybe these are only normal requests from the Pi-hole Dasboard page.
When you keep the Pi-hole web interface opened on the Dashboard page, this page makes around 1 request per second.
If you are not using a domain different than pi.hole, there will be a DNS query to resolve the domain.
What URL exactly are you using to access the web interface?
Note: please generate a debug log, upload it when asked and post here only the Token, not the full log.
Your answer was correct
Actually i monitor pi-hole queries page with Mozilla browser, using the pihole.local name instead of IP.
In this configuration, the browse is sending repeatbly DNS resolution. That’s probably suboptimal behavior from it not having its own local cache…
By replacing pihole.local by ip, the requests disappear.
So topic is solved
Did you try http://pi.hole/admin?
