Dietpi connecting to Chinese sites?

[dr-raypc]

I installed Dietpi on a VM and noticed it was connecting to Chinese websites. I figured that VM may have been compromised so I wiped it and created a new one using DietPi's latest release, however Dietpi is still connecting to Chinese websites. Why is that?

[MichaIng]

Which Chinese website in particular do you mean, and at which step?

• Internet connection checks are done at Quad9 DNS service by default (can be changed).
• DNS resolution is done via whatever your DHCP server serves or you configure manually.
• APT updates are done via deb.debian.org by default (can be changed).
• Some downloads from GitHub and dietpi.com are done at DietPi updates.
• dietpi.com is also connected to for the MOTD (can be disabled) and dietpi-survey (after installs and updates).

Apart from this, I do not have any other connections in mind, as long as you do not install software which needs to be downloaded from elsewhere, of course.