Why so many calls to checkonline.home-assistant.io

[tescophil (Phil)]

Around 2,600 DNS queries every 24 hours

[tom_l]

It is looking to see if you have the latest supervisor version.

Are you blocking the checks?

Is your DNS set up incorrectly?

Either will cause it to retry repeatedly.

[DaveTX (Dave)]

Or a new bug that’s getting fixed…it seems

Do not send excessive DNS queries for online checks (#2100) (#2101)

[CentralCommand (Mike)]

It’s network manager. See my post here for a bit more detail:

How to throttle Supervisor's version check?

I have never seen a bunch of requests for ., not sure what to make of that. Nothing was changed related to the online check for the latest supervisor (or for a while to my knowledge). However due to this thread I did look into the swarms of checkonline queries. I was confused by this because supervisor actually only does a checkonline call every 10 minutes (or every 30 seconds if it believes your offline). When it does the check it does two things ask network manager to do a connectivity chec…

It’s being fixed it on both fronts. Upgrading Network Manager in OS to a version that doesn’t make the same DNS call for each veth and change supervisor to ask less.