.. note:: Why 1232?
1232 is the largest number of payload bytes that can fit in the smallest IPv6 packet.
- IPv6 has a minumum MTU of 1280 bytes (:rfc:`RFC 8200, section 5 <8200#section-5>`), minus 40 bytes for the IPv6 header, minus 8 bytes for the UDP header gives 1232, the maximum payload size for the DNS response.
+ IPv6 has a minimum MTU of 1280 bytes (:rfc:`RFC 8200, section 5 <8200#section-5>`), minus 40 bytes for the IPv6 header, minus 8 bytes for the UDP header gives 1232, the maximum payload size for the DNS response.
This is the value set for the EDNS0 buffer size in outgoing packets.
Lower this if you experience timeouts.