Why does Homey Pro query DNS (internal) for SOA (source of authority) of domain "local"

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Dear all,

I love Homey, let’s start with this first!
But I also love my pi-hole :slight_smile:

I see Homey asking my dns, for about 2 times a minute, who the SOA is for domain “local”
And this is filling up my query logs.

So I have these questions:

Is there a setting in Homey, were I gave it a domain name of “local”?
Is this a setting of Homey that can be changed or is it hard-coded?
Why is my Homey doing this?

Hope someone can help me, finding the answers to my questions.

Thanks all, for your time and effort,

With kind regards,

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Not specifically, but Homey will present itself on the local network as “Homey-XXX.local” to allow for autodiscovery.

It’s hardcoded.

My guess is that it’s an underlying piece of system software running on Homey, like the Avahi/mDNS daemon. It’s fairly common for OS’s to do regular SOA probes (there’s probably a good reason for it), but it’s not something you can disable.

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