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Asynchronous version of :meth:`socket.getnameinfo`.
+.. note::
+ Both *getaddrinfo* and *getnameinfo* internally utilize their synchronous
+ versions through the loop's default thread pool executor.
+ When this executor is saturated, these methods may experience delays,
+ which higher-level networking libraries may report as increased timeouts.
+ To mitigate this, consider using a custom executor for other user tasks,
+ or setting a default executor with a larger number of workers.
+
.. versionchanged:: 3.7
Both *getaddrinfo* and *getnameinfo* methods were always documented
to return a coroutine, but prior to Python 3.7 they were, in fact,