Blocked dns for lookups

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I am talking about this one for example

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1cb7fgv/why_does_haos_querry_its_complete_subnet

or this one

Huge amount of .in-addr.arpa requests from HASS

Since a couple of releases I notice a lot of .in-addr.arpa requests being sent to my local DNS, both to ‘internal’ addresses in the HASS itself (2.0.17.172.in-addr.arpa) as well as for addresses/devices in my LAN (x.x.229.10.in-addr.arpa). I even see requests to non-existent devices, such as 10.229.x.xsensor.monthly_netto where the 10.229.x.x is the router/gateway address of my LAN. It’s not only pretty annoying, but also a bit worriesome. Approximately 40% of all DNS requests are coming from…