Deco M5 calls home and asks for current time, every 10 seconds

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Deco M5 calls home and asks for current time, every 10 seconds
Deco M5 calls home and asks for current time, every 10 seconds
2017-12-12 16:06:08
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Hi,
Is there any reason why every Deco M5 calls home (tp-link.com) and checks the time (time.nist.gov anc time-a.nist.gov) every 10 seconds???

I just checked my Pi-hole just to see my three M5's generating 80% och all dns requests on my network.
Is there any reason why the M5 is so unsecure that it has to call mommy and check the time that often?
Can I change it (or turn it off)?

The reason I ask is that my Pi-hole runs on a RPi3 and I'm afraid that the dns-logging will destroy my sd-card due to all writing.
(and I don't want to turn off the logging since it makes the stats useless)

// Tommy
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Re:Deco M5 calls home and asks for current time, every 10 seconds
2017-12-13 14:58:47
I believe the Deco would use these DNS lookups to confirm its online status, the intervel is actually every 30 seconds.
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Re:Deco M5 calls home and asks for current time, every 10 seconds
2017-12-13 18:04:00
So if there are three Deco nodes, would that be every 10 seconds?
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