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CoreDNS is DNS server that started as a fork of [Caddy](https://github.com/mholt/caddy/). It has the
same model: it chains middleware.
CoreDNS is the successor of [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns). SkyDNS is a thin
layer that exposes services in etcd in the DNS. CoreDNS builds on this idea and is a generic DNS
server that can talk to multiple backends (etcd, consul, kubernetes, etc.).
CoreDNS aims to be a fast and flexible DNS server. The keyword here is *flexible*, with CoreDNS you
are able to do what you want with your DNS data. And if not: write a middleware!
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* Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server (middleware/file).
* Caching (middleware/cache).
* Health checking (middleware/health).
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 98.5% replacement for
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 101.5% replacement for
[SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns) (middleware/etcd).
* Use k8s (kubernetes) as a backend (middleware/kubernetes).
* Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver (middleware/proxy).
* Rewrite queries (both qtype, qclass and qname) (middleware/rewrite).
* Provide metrics (by using Prometheus) (middleware/metrics).