RESOLVED - AdGuard Home - localhost querying random domains

[dancwilliams]

RESOLVED

Hello,

I am hoping someone can provide some insight into what is going on with Adguard Home or show me what I am missing.  I even uninstalled and reinstalled the Adguard Home plugin this morning to see if it may have been something with my install, but the same behavior returned with the default settings.

I have attached some screenshots.  It looks like localhost is just querying thousands of random domain names nonstop.  I was curious if localhost was Adguard itself or queries being originated from within Opnsense.  Either way, why would the systems be querying all of these random domains?

I appreciate the help!

[zan]

How did you configure your DNS resolvers? Do you use Unbound + AdGuard?
If you have Unbound listens to port 53 and AdGuard as upstream then AdGuard will only see all DNS queries from your whole network coming from Unbound, hence localhost.

[dancwilliams]

As soon as I posted my topic I remembered something and BAM…you beat me to posting my oversight.

I had setup a URL Alias for a rule at some point and completely forgot about it and didn’t document it. That is what I get. Removed the alias and all is normal.