GNOME sends DNS queries to weather.noaa.gov repeatedly

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Issue

  • When logging in to GNOME, repeated DNS lookups for weather.noaa.gov are logged.

    queries: info: client 192.168.0.10#36245: query: weather.noaa.gov IN A + (192.168.0.20)
queries: info: client 192.168.0.10#34156: query: weather.noaa.gov IN A + (192.168.0.20)
queries: info: client 192.168.0.10#33726: query: weather.noaa.gov IN A + (192.168.0.20)

  • How do we stop GNOME from querying weather.noaa.gov?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • GNOME Desktop

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