Still openthread "Spam" by Apple?

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Continuing the discussion from Rate limit due to openthread queries:

I still have the problem that it comes to very many queries. My PIHole is flooded with queries.

I am on the latest version on all devices. How are the others out there? Has the situation calmed down? Am I the only one for whom nothing has changed?

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Please provide some examples of queries, forwards and replies from your dnsmasq log at /var/log/pihole.log.

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I have to correct myself. It is now no longer openthread requests, but now the devices (Homepod and Homepod mini) try to find each other directly. I use the unbound service.
All requests are answered with NXDOMAIN.

So I have the following requests in this pattern, it's a few thousand per device per day.

Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[A] sleeping-room.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached sleeping-room.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[AAAA] sleeping-room.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached sleeping-room.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[A] sleeping-room1.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached sleeping-room1.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[AAAA] sleeping-room1.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached sleeping-room1.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[A] homepod.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached homepod.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[AAAA] homepod.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached homepod.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[A] homepod-mini.local from 192.168.0.243
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: cached homepod-mini.local is NXDOMAIN
Jun 10 00:00:25 dnsmasq[38177]: query[AAAA] homepod-mini.local from 192.168.0.243

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Map these domain names to the correct IP addresses in your Local DNS records tab of Pi-hole, and then Pi-hole can correctly answer these queries.

Edit - are you using local as your LAN domain name? If so, change this to something else. The current RFC recommendation is home.arpa.

Domain local is used for mDNS, so you don't want to use that.

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