Suddenly high queries. need help with debug

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For the port mismatch issue, here is a related thread.

Pihole-FTL.log is full of "ERR: Port mismatch" log entries

The issue I am facing: My PiHole setup works without any issues. But I noticed when looking at pihole-FTL.log file that it is full of the following error message. ... [2022-02-15 00:29:19.191 25294M] ERR: Port mismatch for 127.0.0.1: we derived 5053, dnsmasq told us 43 [2022-02-15 00:30:27.244 25294M] ERR: Port mismatch for 127.0.0.1: we derived 5053, dnsmasq told us 43 [2022-02-15 00:33:04.697 25294M] ERR: Port mismatch for 127.0.0.1: we derived 5053, dnsmasq told us 43 ... I want to resolve …

For the high amount of queries, it is not unusual after an outage (internet upset) for a device to generate a large number of queries.

I note that you have conditional forwarding enabled, which can lead to circular DNS traffic.

    REV_SERVER=true
    REV_SERVER_CIDR=192.168.1.0/24
    REV_SERVER_TARGET=192.168.1.1
    REV_SERVER_DOMAIN=

@passuff

The client is pi.hole

Please find some example query, forward and reply entries for this domain in your dnsmasq log at /var/log/pihole.log and post them here.