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CoreDNS is DNS server that started as a fork of [Caddy](https://github.com/mholt/caddy/). It has the
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same model: it chains middleware.
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It is in the early stages of development and should **not** be used on production servers yet. For now most
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documentation is in the source and some blog articles can be [found
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here](https://miek.nl/tags/coredns/).
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## Status
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Currently CoreDNS is able to:
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* Serve zone data from a file, both DNSSEC (NSEC only atm) and DNS is supported.
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* Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e. act as a secondary server.
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* Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server.
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* Use Etcd as a backend, i.e. a 90% replacement for
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[SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns).
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* Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver.
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* Prove metrics (by using Prometheus)
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* Rewrite queries (both qtype and qname).
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* Provide Logging.
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There are corner cases not implement and some blatantly missing functionality; i.e. the secondary
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implement *does not* requery the primary -- *ever*.
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But all in all, CoreDNS should already be able to provide you with enough functionality to replace
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parts of BIND9, Knot, NSD or PowerDNS.
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CoreDNS is still in the early stages of development and should **not** be used on production servers
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yet. For now most documentation is in the source and some blog articles can be [found
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here](https://miek.nl/tags/coredns/). If you do want to use CoreDNS in production, please let us
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know and how we can help.
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<https://caddyserver.com/> is also full of examples on how to structure a Corefile (renamed from
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Caddyfile when I forked it).
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# Resolver
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## Proxy
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Start a simple resolver (proxy):
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Start a simple proxy:
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`Corefile` contains:
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