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It's unusual, but without more details about what was running on the computer, it's not easy to understand the problem. DNS queries should only result when:

a node initializes
a service call is issued

Also, monitoring scripts, like rxgraph, will do much more frequent queries as they do not maintain persistent connections to the nodes they are monitoring.

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