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Why am i receiving DNS queries while none of my purchased domains is connected to a website?

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In the Route 53 billing section I can see that 2,915.000 DNS Queries have been made so far. Thats funny because none of my domains are currently connected to a website/webserver. So where do these 2,915 DNS queries come from exactly? A significant amount of DNS queries were made in previous months as well. Ranging from 4000 up to 9000 or so. Is this normal? Does anyone else experience this?

Thank you

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Networking & Content Delivery
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Amazon Route 53
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Viridios
asked 2 years ago298 views
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Accepted Answer

You can turn on "Public DNS query logging" to identify the offending queries (incurs additional CloudWatch charges, so remember to turn it off)

If I had to guess, it'd be either a record with health check configured, or external parties scanning for security reasons (e.g., domain name reputation, network footprinting, etc.)

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Nati_C
answered 2 years ago
  • Viridios
    2 years ago

    @NaticC-AWS, I have no record with a health check configured. How would external parties know about the domain i've bought?

  • Brettski-AWS EXPERT
    2 years ago

    People don't have to know about domain names - it's very easy to write code to scan for available domain names and then make queries against those domains.

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