I was looking through my watchguard traffic today and noticed a lot of traffic going from my two local DNS servers to "Google-Plus". I'm assuming watchguard has that labeled incorrect as the IP addresses they are trying to connect to are the Google DNS addresses (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). I don't know if this has always been going on or if this is a new issue (hell, it might not even be an issue).
My question is, why are my DNS servers trying to connect / send data to the google dns servers? I have looked through all of my settings and I find no reference to any IP address outside of my network. There is another address it's sending data to as well - 64.89.70.2. This address is listed as being part of windstream but Watchguard has it labeled as "google-plus" as well.
My best guess is that it's just trying to update the DNS cache on both sides and that it's just being mislabeled as "google-plus" and sometimes "google-talk" in watchguard. But before I allow those specific IP addresses I want to have some input from those wiser than I.
Thanks.