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v2rayN with the sing-box Core (2026): What Changes, and the DNS Trap

Switching v2rayN from the Xray core to sing-box: which protocols actually need it (TUIC, AnyTLS, Naive - not Hysteria2), how the DNS fields change meaning, why Bootstrap DNS must be an IP, and where the files live.

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