 cannot route based on that either, leaving only port number, which leads to conflicts when multiple <code>ServiceEntry</code>s for TCP services share the same port.</p><p>To work around these issues, the DNS proxy additionally supports automatically allocating addresses for <code>ServiceEntry</code>s that do not explicitly define one. This is configured by the <code>ISTIO_META_DNS_AUTO_ALLOCATE</code> option.</p><p>When this feature is enabled, the DNS response will include a distinct and automatically ass