Adguardhome: What is going on here? "duplicated" domains in log

[gpioneer90]

I'm not sure how to descibe this better so please look at the screenshot

With every blocked request, a new "allowed" request is duplicated and appended .attlocal.net (my router. If I switch routers, it appends that router's domain..)

Is this normal behavior? Adblocking still works. Am just wondering why it resends the request and duplicates it for every blocked request

[ameshkov]

This is called "search domain". Your system is configured to retry every query answered with NXDOMAIN by appending a "search domain" to the domain name.

This is not a problem, but if you want you can change your system settings to get rid of these queries.

[gpioneer90]

What do you mean by "system"? The Adguard Home? The Pi it's installed on? The router?

[ameshkov]

Neither, I mean the device that uses the DNS server

[gpioneer90]

Thank you.

(in my case, my device is a Chromebook and I can't find an option to modify this setting. But changing Adguard Home's DNS response from NXDOMAIN to Null IP got rid of the duplicate domains. I'm sure, as you say, it's not an issue, but getting rid of the duplicates makes looking at AGH's log easier, with less entries)