DNS requests to Russian IP address during OPNsense install

[MS78M]

Hi,

I've installed a test copy of OPNsense on a virtual machine on Proxmox in my home lab network.

When I boot from the installation ISO image,  my production firewall blocks two DNS requests from the WAN port of the test VM to 185.209.85.151 on port 53

This IP address is located in Russia. Is this to be expected ?

I obtained the software OPNsense-23.1-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2 from the LeaseWeb repository via the https://opnsense.org/download/ website.

Thanks

[Patrick M. Hausen]

It's one of the authoritative DNS servers for the pool.ntp.org zone. Sheer accident your resolver picked that particular server.

Try

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dig pool.ntp.org ns

[MS78M]

Thank you for the prompt and helpful answer.