# chaos The `chaos` middleware allows CoreDNS to response to TXT queries in CH class. Useful for retrieving version or author information from the server. If ## Syntax ~~~ chaos [version] [authors...] ~~~ * `version` the version to return, defaults to CoreDNS. * `authors` what authors to return. No default. Note that you have to make sure that this middleware will get actual queries for the following zones: `version.bind`, `version.server`, `authors.bind`, `hostname.bind` and `id.server`. ## Examples ~~~ chaos CoreDNS-001 "Miek Gieben" miek@miek.nl ~~~