Comment by vsviridov

7 years ago

Just anecdotally, from running PiHole, looking at the logs, I have some sites being resolved 12K times over 11 days... That's over a thousands requests a day.

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jlgaddis  7 years ago

Running

  $ echo min-cache-ttl=300 | \
      sudo tee /etc/dnsmasq.d/99-min-cache-ttl.conf

will likely cut down on the number of forwarded queries by a large amount. Adjust the value (in seconds) to your needs.

Don't forget to run

  $ sudo pihole restartdns

afterwards.

tallanvor  7 years ago

Probably ad or analytic sites? I know one app in particular where every other update seems to result in it sending a request per second to some blocked analytics site.