[RPi5] Constant Router Messages

MRFoster · March 6, 2025 at 7:54 AM

Hello all, I want to make it clear this is not a LibreELEC issue, but thought I would ask the questions anyway. I get constant messages logs on my router from all of my 5 RPI5's with LE/Kodi around the house. It looks as though they are constantly contacting google, like over and over and over. The pic below of 1 RPI5 has 360 entries of 8.8.4.4. I have another 4 RPI5's with the same thing.

My question is, am I able to turn these off via the LibreELEC/Kodi menu? And is someone able to help me understand what is going here?

Thanks all.

Mark

**chewitt** · March 6, 2025 at 8:37 AM

Like any modern internet-enabled app, even you're not actively watching a movie Kodi is doing "something" in the background, so will make connections to external services and those typically require a DNS lookup to be done; hence you see connections on port 53 (DNS) to 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 which are Google DNS servers. These are the default DNS servers we configure in the OS, so they will be used unless DHCP provides something different (and often routers might provide them too). Can you stop it? .. probably not without disabling addons and functionality. Is it an issue? .. also probably not. If you suspect something bad is happening you'll need to look deeper into the network traffic using something like WireShark to sniff and see what's actually being looked-up (as the router isn't logging anything forensically useful like the actual queries).