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@@ -211,3 +211,10 @@ Last updated:    2011-02-16
      communication from an admin tool reach the programme. See section 1
      'Starting a server' further up for the ports and protocols used by OpenTTD.
      The ports can be configured in the config file.
+
+ - My advertising server warns a lot about getaddrinfo taking N seconds
+     This could be a transient issue with your (local) DNS server, but if the
+     problem persists there is likely a configuration issue in DNS resolving
+     on your computer. This seems to be a common configuration issue for
+     Docker instances, where the DNS resolving waits for a time out of usually
+     5 seconds.