# Too many DNS request

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-dns-request/129170>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 23, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-dns-request/129170 "2018-04-23T19:37:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![imortalsolitude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/6f9a4e/32.png) [@imortalsolitude](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/imortalsolitude)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 7:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-dns-request/129170/1 "2018-04-23T19:37:37Z")

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I am running ELK 6.2.3 and with ingest geoip plugin my ELK is sending over 500 DNS requests to 8.8.8.8 per minute this is generating too many log files. If i drop packet on the server itself no data in ingested in to the index. Any idea why would the ingest geoip make so many dns requests to 8.8.8.8?

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**Author:** ![magnusbaeck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/magnusbaeck/32/44943_2.png) [@magnusbaeck](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/magnusbaeck)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-dns-request/129170/2 "2018-04-23T20:46:55Z")

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Please ask questions about Elasticsearch ingest pipelines in the Elasticsearch category. As I understand your question Logstash isn't involved here.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/too-many-dns-request/129170/3 "2018-05-21T20:47:06Z")

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Closed on May 21, 2018, 8:47pm UTC

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