Re: Lots of traffic on internal interface

[Travis H.]

No this is completely normal, traffic to local addresses (obtained by
DNS lookup of hostname) get routed to loopback interface as an
optimization.  Anything which tries to connect to your hostname
instead of "localhost" will do this.
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