Expected Behaviour: No flooding/excessive requests to wpad.lan.mydomain.io and isatap.lan.mydomain.io and others Actual Behaviour: wpad.lan.mydomain.io 20679 mini.lan.mydomain.io 12437 isatap.lan.mydomain.io 11383 lan.mydomain.io 2430 USSWVHPSS646.lan.mydomain.io 1728 USSWVHPSS6…

Where are the queries coming from? If it's not the Pi-hole, then it's probably not a Pi-hole issue.

I noticed the wpad (unresolved) dns requests a long time a go. They are coming from windows 10 and I haven't found a way to stop windows making these requests. I also noticed a macbook making unresolvable requests in a similar way. My resolution to decrease the number of wpad requests and make the…

I try your solution but it doesn't work, wpad requests are still present. The only way to stop these requests is insert wpad.localdomain in hosts file on windows machines.

The idea behind the solution is NOT to eliminate the requests, that can only be done by modifying the local host (=windows 10) hosts file, as you did. The idea and solution is to eliminate the timeout, by providing an answer to the DNS request, and to provide a single solution for all (multiple) cl…

I did it whit pihole -a hostrecord wpad.mydomain.tld 10.10.1.2 no need to make the 06-localdns.conf

This article suggests that it's a good idea to disable WPAD [image] Disable WPAD in Windows to Stay Safe on Public Wi-Fi Networks Web Proxy Auto-Discovery (WPAD) gives organizations a way to automatically configure a proxy server on your system.

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Pi hole flooded with queries to wpad and isatap - Ubiquiti

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