diff --git a/local/recipes/system/redbear-dnsd/source/src/transport.rs b/local/recipes/system/redbear-dnsd/source/src/transport.rs
index 0e74ec4f5f..4b259eb4f9 100644
--- a/local/recipes/system/redbear-dnsd/source/src/transport.rs
+++ b/local/recipes/system/redbear-dnsd/source/src/transport.rs
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 use std::io;
 use std::net::{Ipv4Addr, Ipv6Addr, SocketAddr, SocketAddrV4, UdpSocket};
+use std::sync::atomic::{AtomicU16, Ordering};
 use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
 
 // ─── DNS Wire Types (standalone, matching relibc's Dns/DnsQuery/DnsAnswer) ───
@@ -39,22 +40,28 @@ pub(crate) struct DnsMessage {
     pub authorities: Vec<DnsAnswer>,
 }
 
-/// Simple prng for transaction IDs (xorshift).
-static mut DNS_TID: u16 = 0x42;
+/// Thread-safe transaction ID counter (xorshift16) backed by `AtomicU16`.
+///
+/// `fetch_update` performs the read-modify-write as a single atomic step, which
+/// eliminates the data race that existed with the previous `static mut DNS_TID`
+/// shared between the loopback listener thread, the mDNS responder thread, and
+/// any scheme-call paths that originate queries concurrently.
+static DNS_TID: AtomicU16 = AtomicU16::new(0x42);
 
 fn next_tid() -> u16 {
-    // Simple xorshift16 for transaction IDs
-    unsafe {
-        let mut x = DNS_TID;
-        x ^= x << 7;
-        x ^= x >> 9;
-        x ^= x << 8;
-        if x == 0 {
-            x = 0x42;
-        }
-        DNS_TID = x;
-        x
-    }
+    DNS_TID
+        .fetch_update(Ordering::Relaxed, Ordering::Relaxed, |prev| {
+            let mut x = prev;
+            // Simple xorshift16 PRNG — adequate for non-cryptographic transaction IDs.
+            x ^= x << 7;
+            x ^= x >> 9;
+            x ^= x << 8;
+            if x == 0 {
+                x = 0x42;
+            }
+            Some(x)
+        })
+        .unwrap_or(0x42)
 }
 
 impl DnsMessage {
@@ -233,11 +240,14 @@ pub(crate) fn encode_name_to_vec(name: &str) -> Vec<u8> {
     data
 }
 
+const MAX_COMPRESSION_JUMPS: u8 = 10;
+
 fn decode_name(data: &[u8], pos: &mut usize) -> Result<String, String> {
     let name_ptr = 0b1100_0000u8;
     let mut name = String::new();
     let mut jumped = false;
     let mut jump_to = None;
+    let mut jumps_remaining = MAX_COMPRESSION_JUMPS;
 
     loop {
         if *pos >= data.len() {
@@ -246,11 +256,16 @@ fn decode_name(data: &[u8], pos: &mut usize) -> Result<String, String> {
 
         let len = data[*pos];
         if len & name_ptr == name_ptr {
-            // Compression pointer
             if *pos + 2 > data.len() {
                 return Err("truncated in compression".into());
             }
+            if jumps_remaining == 0 {
+                return Err("compression pointer loop".into());
+            }
             let offset = u16::from_be_bytes([data[*pos] & !name_ptr, data[*pos + 1]]) as usize;
+            if offset >= *pos && offset != *pos {
+                return Err("compression pointer would loop backward".into());
+            }
             if offset >= data.len() {
                 return Err("invalid compression offset".into());
             }
@@ -259,6 +274,7 @@ fn decode_name(data: &[u8], pos: &mut usize) -> Result<String, String> {
             }
             *pos = offset;
             jumped = true;
+            jumps_remaining -= 1;
             continue;
         }