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Problem

• resolver.setServers(["127.0.0.1:99999"]) sets port 34463 without an error. Node v26.12.1 throws RangeError ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT (dns: validate port range in setServers() nodejs/node#65021). A comparison with Node found this, not a user report.
• setServersOn (src/js/node/dns.ts:160, :171) parses the port with no range check. Native code keeps the low 32 bits, then c-ares keeps the low 16.

Fix

• setServersOn calls validatePort(port) in both parse arms. This is Node's diff, so the order of the checks is Node's.
• Verified: test/js/node/dns/dns-resolver-class.test.ts (25 of the 27 added tests fail on main at 081ace7, all 43 pass with the fix). Also the 25 vendored test-dns*.js files, where test-dns.js gains Node's two hunks for this check.
• Self-reviewed: 22 concerns raised, 20 addressed. Two asked for a native check here (see Notes).

Background

• node:dns makes a [family, address, port] triple of each server string and gives the list to the native resolver. validatePort is the shared port validator of node:net and dns.lookupService.
• Considered a native check. Alone, it reports the address for ["1.2.3.4:65536", "nope"] where Node reports the port. Beside this one, it changes a function that Replace c-ares with a DNS resolver in safe Rust #47076 deletes.

Downsides

• Bun.dns.setServers and resolver._handle.setServers take triples directly and still wrap. Node's _handle.setServers wraps too.
• One validatePort call for each server string with a port: +89 instructions for ip:port, +181 for [ip]:port (JIT off), none for a bare address. No allocation. Module text +21 bytes.
• The message ends Received 99999. Node's ends Received type number (99999). The shared validator prints it (node: give ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT from validatePort Node's message #47239).

Notes

Repro (no query is sent):

import dns from "node:dns";
const r = new dns.Resolver();
r.setServers(["127.0.0.1:99999"]);
console.log(r.getServers());

input	main 11c3671	this PR	Node v26.12.1
127.0.0.1:99999	127.0.0.1:34463	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT
127.0.0.1:65536	127.0.0.1	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT
127.0.0.1:4294967349	127.0.0.1	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT
[::1]:99999	[::1]:34463	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT
["8.8.8.8", "1.2.3.4:99999"]	both servers set	throws, servers unchanged	throws, servers unchanged
["1.2.3.4:99999", "nope"]	ERR_INVALID_IP_ADDRESS	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT
a Resolver with a pending query, 1.2.3.4:65536	ERR_DNS_SET_SERVERS_FAILED	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT	ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT

The same holds for dns.setServers, dns.promises.setServers, dns.Resolver#setServers and dns.promises.Resolver#setServers. They all call setServersOn.

Node's code. ResolverBase#setServers in lib/internal/dns/utils.js calls validatePort(port) at lines 134 and 149, inside if (ipVersion !== 0), and parses the addr:port arm with NumberParseInt(addrSplitMatch[2]) || IANA_DNS_PORT at line 144. This PR has the same three lines.

Against Node v26.12.1, with the debug build of this PR:

• A probe of 84 lines (26 inputs on 3 entry points, and 3 lists): 0 lines differ in error class, error code or resulting servers. 39 lines differ only in the text after Received.
• 8 lists that mix a bad port with a bad address or a wrong type: 0 differ in class, code or servers afterwards.
• Ports 0 and 65535, leading zeros, [::1]:, [::1]:5x and zone ids give the same result as before and as Node.

Cost, measured on release builds of main 11c3671 and of this PR, made on one machine. The two binaries have the same 146,671 function symbols. Only the embedded module text differs.

• validatePort host calls per setServers call (gdb breakpoint counts, 1000 and 2000 calls): 3 servers with ports 0 -> 3.000, 3 bare addresses 0 -> 0.
• Instructions per call (user-space hardware counter, BUN_JSC_useJIT=0, 200,000 against 1,000,000 calls, two interleaved runs): 3 bare addresses 31,922 and 31,939 -> 31,922 and 31,966. 127.0.0.1:5353 33,429 -> 33,518. [::1]:5353 33,588 -> 33,770. Three servers with ports 93,159 -> 93,542. The noise between equal runs is about 30.
• Allocator entries per call (gdb breakpoints on the 15 mi_* allocation symbols): 7.048 -> 7.046, 4.046 -> 4.046, 6.069 -> 6.069, 12.125 -> 12.125 for the four lists above.
• GC cell bytes per call (sum of bytes allocated this cycle in the GC log over 400,000 calls): 365.7 -> 365.7 for ip:port, 528.7 -> 528.7 for [ip]:port.
• build/release/js/node/dns.js: 23,151 -> 23,172 bytes. Binary text: 138,010,898 -> 138,010,919 bytes.
• perf, valgrind and strace are not installed on the machine. A 40-line perf_event_open program counted the instructions. No syscall count was taken. The native code is the same in both binaries.

Not in this PR. The self-review raised two concerns that asked to keep a native check and a reorder of the native function here. They are not taken, for the reasons in the first two items.

• Raw triples. Bun.dns.setServers([[4, "127.0.0.1", 99999]]) and resolver._handle.setServers(...) still store 34463, and -1 stores 65535. A check there is stricter than Node, whose raw handle wraps or aborts. It needs a maintainer's decision. Replace c-ares with a DNS resolver in safe Rust #47076 rewrites that function and keeps coerce_to_i32(..)? as u16.
• A use-after-free in the same native function, found during this work and not fixed here. It reads the triples while it holds the c-ares channel pointer. resolver._handle.setServers([[4, "127.0.0.2", { valueOf() { graph.dispose(); return 53; } }]]), for a resolver made inside a Bun.ModuleGraph, frees the channel before ares_set_servers_ports uses it. A debug build reports AddressSanitizer: use-after-poison in ares_channel_lock. The resolver of Replace c-ares with a DNS resolver in safe Rust #47076 borrows its channel after it has read the triples.
• The other changes that Node made to its dns lib between v26.3.0 and v26.12.1: NUL bytes in resolve* and setLocalAddress inputs (Reject interior NUL bytes in hostnames, IP addresses, and SNI servernames #37013), the type of the lookupService address, and -0 in timeout and maxTimeout.

Suites run on the debug build of this PR: test/js/node/dns/dns-resolver-class.test.ts, dns-lookup-keepalive.test.ts, dns-resolver-concurrent-timeout.test.ts, dns-tcp-bidirectional-poll.test.ts, the node:dns block of members-of-prototype-objects-for-any-receiver.test.ts, the 25 vendored test-dns*.js, and test-worker-dns-terminate-during-query.js. The 16-line hunk in test-dns.js is from nodejs/node#65021 and the 4-line port 0 hunk is from nodejs/node#65009. Lines 60 to 160 of the file are now the same as in Node v26.12.1. test/js/node/dns/node-dns.test.js resolves public hostnames, so the new tests are not in it. The full list of ports runs on dns.Resolver and dns.promises.Resolver instances. dns.setServers, dns.promises.setServers and Resolver.prototype.setServers.call(undefined) change the default resolver of the process, so their checks run in a child process.

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Status

Reproduced on a debug build of main and on bun 1.4.3:

import dns from "node:dns";
const r = new dns.Resolver();
r.setServers(["127.0.0.1:99999"]);
console.log(r.getServers()); // ["127.0.0.1:34463"], Node v26.12.1 throws RangeError ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT

On main at 081ace7, test/js/node/dns/dns-resolver-class.test.ts fails 25 of its 43 tests without the change to src/js/node/dns.ts. With the change all 43 pass.

CI: build #135027 ran 184 of its 188 jobs, and all 184 passed. No test failed on every retry. The other 4 jobs are the macOS x64 test-bun jobs. Each expired four times before an agent took it: the test-darwin queue held 218 scheduled x64 jobs for 9 agents at 00:23 UTC on Oct 30. A retry of those 4 jobs is all that the build needs.

PR: #47302

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^{Updated 5:05 AM PT - Oct 29th, 2026}

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Walkthrough

DNS server parsing now validates ports for bracketed IPv6 and addr:port entries. Falsy parsed ports use port 53. Tests cover out-of-range ports, normalization, validation order, server preservation, and behavior during pending resolver queries.

Changes

DNS server port validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Parse and validate DNS server ports src/js/node/dns.ts, test/js/node/dns/dns-resolver-class.test.ts, test/js/node/test/parallel/test-dns.js	Parsed ports are validated before server entries are added. Falsy ports use port 53. Tests cover port bounds, normalization, validation order, preservation of configured servers, and pending queries.

Possibly related PRs

• oven-sh/bun#44555: Both PRs use shared port validation; this PR applies it to dns.setServers().
• oven-sh/bun#47239: Both PRs use the ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT validation path.

Suggested reviewers: dylan-conway

Priority: Normal

Merge Risk: Low · up to 7f883

The port-validation change has no established runtime regression. Move the added vendored-test assertions into the Bun-owned DNS suite to avoid maintaining an upstream divergence; the remaining risk is bounded maintenance overhead.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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LGTM — a two-call port of Node's validatePort check into setServersOn, and the follow-up commit moves the default-resolver cases into a child process as suggested.

What was reviewed:

• src/js/node/dns.ts:160-178: validatePort runs inside the ipVersion !== 0 branch of both arms, so a bad address still reports ERR_INVALID_IP_ADDRESS before a bad port, and the first bad server wins; the addr:port arm's parseInt(...) || IANA_DNS_PORT makes :0 behave like the bracketed arm (c-ares already treated 0 as default, so getServers() output is unchanged).
• NodeValidatorBodies.h validatePort: undefined name/allowZero default to "Port" and true, so 0 is accepted and the thrown error is RangeError ERR_SOCKET_BAD_PORT with the message the tests match.
• Tests are hermetic: UDP socket on port 0 for the pending-query case, subprocess pipes drained via Promise.all, no sleeps; the pending-query test confirms the port check precedes the native ERR_DNS_SET_SERVERS_FAILED busy check.
• No src/js/ahead-of-time mirror of dns.ts exists, and none of the changed paths are covered by CODEOWNERS.

Extended reasoning...

The runtime change is three lines in src/js/node/dns.ts adding validatePort (the existing shared validator, already imported) to both port-parsing arms of setServersOn and aligning the addr:port default expression with the bracketed-IPv6 arm; all four entry points (dns.setServers, dns.promises.setServers, both Resolver classes) route through this one helper. It touches no security-sensitive surface beyond rejecting out-of-range DNS server ports earlier. Test coverage is thorough and hermetic across both Resolver classes plus the three default-resolver forms in a spawned child, and the second commit resolved the only open concern from the prior run. The vendored test-dns.js hunks were not diffed against upstream from this checkout, but their content is consistent with the described nodejs/node#65021 and #65009 edits and only affects a test file. The small, self-contained scope and direct correspondence to Node's lib/internal/dns/utils.js decided approve.