PiHole discloses unusually high Nvidia GeForce Experience requests
PiHole discloses unusually high Nvidia GeForce Experience requests
I recently converted an old workstation into a TrueNas data server. Initially, the plan was to use the samba network share, but I found it possible to run PiHole for custom DNS filtering. I added common data mining items like google, apple, microsoft, applovin, etc., to automatically block them. While reviewing the blocked query logs, I observed a high volume of GeForce Experience searches—nearly a thousand pages every two minutes. Anyone else have seen this? Why does Nvidia require such frequent telemetry updates? This seems more intense than what Microsoft experiences.
The payload size is substantial, and we have no clear details about its contents. It might involve a retry mechanism if initial attempts fail. Once it reaches the destination, it remains stable.
Yes, it's been a while. That's why you shouldn't install the software we're monitoring. Also, you can restrict certain websites in Windows so the app can't even try to connect.
I have GFE set up and activated. I used Wireshark for more than 3000 seconds while mostly away from the chat. You can observe me sending pings to events.gfe.nvidia.com to retrieve the IP address, which I applied as a filter. There were two clusters of activity near log time 430s and 486s. It doesn’t happen every two minutes. Reflecting on this, you might be blocking DNS rather than the data itself? This suggests it’s likely trying to resolve the name again instead of sending different packets each time.