# Why does Homey Pro query DNS (internal) for SOA (source of authority) of domain "local" **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions & Help\ **Tags:** homey-pro\ **Created:** [May 3, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/why-does-homey-pro-query-dns-internal-for-soa-source-of-authority-of-domain-local/109245 "2024-05-03T06:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dnomge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/dnomge/32/18788_2.png) [@Dnomge](https://community.homey.app/u/Dnomge)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 6:00am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/why-does-homey-pro-query-dns-internal-for-soa-source-of-authority-of-domain-local/109245/1 "2024-05-03T06:00:26Z")
Dear all, I love Homey, let’s start with this first! But I also love my pi-hole 🙂 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, ---
**Author:** ![robertklep](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/robertklep/32/160628_2.png) [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2024, 6:10am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/why-does-homey-pro-query-dns-internal-for-soa-source-of-authority-of-domain-local/109245/2 "2024-05-03T06:10:48Z")
> [@Dnomge](#): > > Is there a setting in Homey, were I gave it a domain name of “local”? Not specifically, but Homey will present itself on the local network as “Homey-XXX.local” to allow for autodiscovery. > [@](#): > > Is this a setting of Homey that can be changed or is it hard-coded? It’s hardcoded. > [@](#): > > Why is my Homey doing this? 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. ---
**Author:** ![airw0lf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/airw0lf/32/135459_2.png) [@airw0lf](https://community.homey.app/u/airw0lf)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 4:20pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/why-does-homey-pro-query-dns-internal-for-soa-source-of-authority-of-domain-local/109245/3 "2025-06-15T16:20:01Z")
Not sure if I’m supposed to do this - but anyhow: I have noticed this with dnsmasq as well - and it does this a lot - every few seconds (see below)! The homey pro device as ip 192.168.230.210. If I let dnsmasq forward these to 127.0.0.1:5353 (i.e. avahi)) then nothing happens - other then repeating the same request over-and-over. Similar when forwarding these to 127.0.0.1 (i.e. dnsmasq) then dnsmasq responds with nxdomain - after which the request is repeated. If I let dnsmasq be the authorative server for the local-domain by creating a soa config which points to 127.0.0.1 (i.e. dnsmasq) it starts asking for A and AAAA records of a gateway, appending all domains homey pro is aware of (i.e. local and domotica.lan). This is then also repeated over-and-over. ```auto Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: auth local is Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: query[A] gateway-2077-6072-7122.local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: auth gateway-2077-6072-7122.local is NXDOMAIN Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: query[AAAA] gateway-2077-6072-7122.local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: auth gateway-2077-6072-7122.local is NXDOMAIN Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: query[A] gateway-2077-6072-7122.local.domotica.lan from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: cached gateway-2077-6072-7122.local.domotica.lan is NXDOMAIN Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: query[AAAA] gateway-2077-6072-7122.local.domotica.lan from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 19:41:12 dnsmasq[24793]: cached gateway-2077-6072-7122.local.domotica.lan is NXDOMAIN ``` ```auto Jun 15 18:00:05 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:14 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:22 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:30 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:38 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:46 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:00:54 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:03 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:11 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:19 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:28 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:36 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:44 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:01:52 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:02:01 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:02:09 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dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:10:06 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 Jun 15 18:10:15 dnsmasq[16096]: query[SOA] local from 192.168.230.210 ```