dns-sockets verifiedWritten by the Hub
Sockets used for queries
in the configuration this is a line
dns-sockets: 4How many sockets the resolver spreads its queries across.
Values
- Values
positive integer- Default
4 · 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
More sockets mean more source ports in play, which both spreads load and makes responses harder to forge — a query is only accepted on the socket that asked it. Four is the shipped value and matches the documentation, one of the few numbers here that does.