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										 |  |  | # whoami
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										 |  |  | ## Name
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										 |  |  | *whoami* - returns your resolver's local IP address, port and transport. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ## Description
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							|  |  |  | The *whoami* plugin is not really that useful, but can be used for having a simple (fast) endpoint | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | to test clients against. When *whoami* returns a response it will have your client's IP address in | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | the additional section as either an A or AAAA record. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | The reply always has an empty answer section. The port and transport are included in the additional | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | section as a SRV record, transport can be "tcp" or "udp". | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ~~~ txt | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | ._<transport>.qname. 0 IN SRV 0 0 <port> . | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | The *whoami* plugin will respond to every A or AAAA query, regardless of the query name. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | If CoreDNS can't find a Corefile on startup this is the _default_ plugin that gets loaded. As such | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | it can be used to check that CoreDNS is responding to queries. Other than that this plugin is of | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | limited use in production. | 
					
						
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										 |  |  | ## Syntax
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							|  |  |  | ~~~ txt | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | whoami | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | ~~~ | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ## Examples
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										 |  |  | Start a server on the default port and load the *whoami* plugin. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ~~~ corefile | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | . { | 
					
						
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										 |  |  |     whoami | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | } | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | ~~~ | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | When queried for "example.org A", CoreDNS will respond with: | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ;; QUESTION SECTION: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | ;example.org.   IN       A | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | example.org.            0       IN      A       10.240.0.1 | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | _udp.example.org.       0       IN      SRV     0 0 40212 | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | ## See Also
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							|  |  |  | [Read the blog post][blog] on how this plugin is built, or [explore the source code][code]. | 
					
						
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							|  |  |  | [blog]: https://coredns.io/2017/03/01/how-to-add-plugins-to-coredns/ | 
					
						
							|  |  |  | [code]: https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/master/plugin/whoami/ |