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dns-buffersize verifiedWritten by the Hub

UDP buffer for DNS

in the configuration this is a linedns-buffersize: 1MB

Size of the socket buffer used for DNS traffic.

Values

Values
size with unit
Default
1MB · taken from the build
applying
restart required
where it can be set
in the config file · with a startup flag · as an environment variable

In detail

A megabyte, where the documentation says "system default". Under a burst of lookups a small buffer drops responses, and a dropped response is indistinguishable from a slow one — it costs an attempt, and with only two attempts available that matters.