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This variable will report the maximum number of simultaneous tcp clients
that BIND has served while running.

It can be verified by running rndc status, then inspect "tcp high-water:
count", or by generating statistics file, rndc stats, then inspect the
line with "TCP connection high-water" text.

The tcp-highwater variable is atomically updated based on an existing
tcp-quota system handled in ns/client.c.