Unidentified call to Google

[aimdev]

I am getting these, every six minutes

2022-01-31T10:04:00   Notice   /update_tables.py   resolving 1 hostnames (1 addresses) for Google took 0.01 seconds

I disconnected the lan input and waited to see if opnsense was the source, and I do believe it is.

Can someone advise why this is occurring.
Only Google is in the log, no other entity has been seen.

Thanks

[surly]

"Me too", but it's "YouTube" for me.  Not sure when it started.

In my case it looks to be an alias in Firewall -> Aliases called "Youtube" of type "hosts" with a list of FQDNs that need to resolve.  So, this log makes perfect sense.  Although I don't recall creating this alias, but that doesn't mean I didn't.  It doesn't seem to be used for anything at the moment.

Check yours for a hosts alias called "Google" and that's likely your cause.  An alias with a list of FQDNs must be resolved to IP addresses on a regular basis to build the actual alias to use in the filters.

[aimdev]

Yes thats it. changed alias to GoogleCrap, and it appears in the log.
Thanks