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pulsar is spamming DNS requests for google.com #208
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After updating my OpenELEC x86_64 system to 6.0.1 recently, I noticed it was sending DNS requests for the
google.com.
A and AAAA records once every second.I traced the requests to multiple threads in the pulsar daemon process. They're doing the
google.com.
lookup followed by connecting a socket to UDP port 9 on one of the addresses returned by the lookup, registering the socket with epoll, then almost immediately closing the socket without sending any traffic.OpenELEC does not cache the DNS results so the lookups might be side effects of regular calls to
net.Dial
. The lookup/connect/close every second seems like strange behaviour, though.VERSION
for the add-on says 0.7.1.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: