As you can see, the request is sent to an automatically allocated address, <code>240.240.0.1</code>. These addresses will be picked from the <code>240.240.0.0/16</code> reserved IP address range to avoid conflicting with real services.</p><nav id=see-also><h2>See also</h2><div class=see-also><div class=entry><p class=link><a data-skipendnotes=true href=/v1.13/blog/2020/dns-proxy/>Expanding into New Frontiers - Smart DNS Proxying in Istio</a></p><p class=desc>Workload Local DNS resolution to simplify VM inte