chromecast tries to resolve DNS name channel.status.request.url periodically, which does not exist, and it does, it POSTS data to it

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install Chromecast, do nothing special
2. Wait

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
TV. What I see instead is periodic failed lookups for the domain name 
"channel.status.request.url". 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Various, OSX, Ubuntu, Android. Queries come from the chromecast itself.
Chromecast reports: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, 
like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.90 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.17.46278

Please provide any additional information below.
If you make 'channel.status.request.url' exist as a domain name with an IP 
address, the Chromecast will POST this there, unencrypted.
POST / HTTP/1.1
Host: channel.status.request.url
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 13
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like 
Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.90 Safari/537.36 CrKey/1.17.46278
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate 
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8
CAST-DEVICE-CAPABILITIES: {"bluetooth_supported":false,"display_supported":true}

Original issue reported on code.google.com by bert.hub...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2015 at 3:50

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It actually posts content too: gcm_channel

Original comment by bert.hub...@gmail.com on 10 Dec 2015 at 4:01

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Regarding #2, my original paste was incomplete, and only showed the headers of 
the post, and these promise 13 bytes of posted content. These 13 bytes are 
'gcm_channel\r\n'.

Original comment by bert.hub...@gmail.com on 11 Dec 2015 at 11:20

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Please share receiver logs. Also, which app is this issue seen on? If this app 
is in production please share a link to it. 

Original comment by na...@google.com on 12 Dec 2015 at 1:31

• Changed state: NeedInfo

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Apologies, seems like this irrelevant of an app. This is seen on Chromecast 
generation 1 with firmware 1.17.46278, is it correct? 

Original comment by na...@google.com on 12 Dec 2015 at 1:57

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Closing due to lack of response. Please respond to the ticket if issue persists 
and we'd gladly revisit it. 

Original comment by na...@google.com on 6 Jan 2016 at 1:43

• Changed state: Done

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yes

Original comment by bert.hub...@gmail.com on 19 Jan 2016 at 3:05