Hello.

The policies fail to load, so a retry loop happens.

On 10/04/2026 12.00, Frederik Himpe via knot-resolver-users wrote:

Apr 10 11:56:49 supervisord[56300]: captured stdio output from policy-loader[56778] (stderr): [system] config 'policy-loader.conf' (workdir '/run/knot-resolver'): No such file or directory

Well, this log line is really weird and we don't know why it happens for you. But I tried to download the threatfox RPZ and it won't parse anyway because of this line apparently having an illegally formatted/escaped domain name:

egqfg1ah2lbhoksjmxz30w== CNAME . ; Botnet C2 - confidence level: 75% (2025_12_14), see https://threatfox.abuse.ch/ioc/1679082/

policy-loader[2385553]: [rules ] error parsing zone file `/tmp/threatfox.abuse.ch.rpz`, error -989: invalid domain name character

--Vladimir