On VMTN I noticed somehow asking why vCenter Server was trying to access assets.contentstack.io, and why there were so many DNS requests for assets.contentstack.io. It took me a while to figure it out, but I noticed that there’s a plugin for the VMware Cloud Provider Services, this plugin is hosted on contentstack.io, and that is the reason you see vCenter Server trying to connect with that URL and why you are seeing DNS requests for assets.contentstack.io. You can prevent this from happening by simply selecting the plugin, and then removing it. That is, of course, if you are not planning on using these services.
in general, I’m seeing vsphere8 and esxi8 making a HUGE number of dns requests compared to v7. not only for assets.contentstack.io, but for all the members of a cluster. it’s like they don’t respect the ttl in the response. or don’t care.
has anyone else noticed this?
I have reported this internally, still not sure why…
Hi,
I’ve seen that too on my DNS servers. Queries doubled basically 🙂
On internal servers, I’ve 1800 (not 1799 nor 1801!) queries for each single ESX every hour, so every 2 seconds
Tnx
After removing still the same.
Strange, as it has reportedly worked for various folks?
It just gets reinstalled on reboot. Not a solution unfortunately.
In the end I was able to delete it for sure.
https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2017/08/managing-disabling-deleting-vmware-vcenter-server-plugins/