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.TH "COREDNS-RELOAD" 7 "March 2021" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS Plugins"
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.SH "NAME"
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.PP
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\fIreload\fP - allows automatic reload of a changed Corefile.
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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.PP
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This plugin allows automatic reload of a changed \fICorefile\fP.
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To enable automatic reloading of \fIzone file\fP changes, use the \fB\fCauto\fR plugin.
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.PP
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This plugin periodically checks if the Corefile has changed by reading
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it and calculating its MD5 checksum. If the file has changed, it reloads
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CoreDNS with the new Corefile. This eliminates the need to send a SIGHUP
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or SIGUSR1 after changing the Corefile.
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.PP
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The reloads are graceful - you should not see any loss of service when the
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reload happens. Even if the new Corefile has an error, CoreDNS will continue
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to run the old config and an error message will be printed to the log. But see
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the Bugs section for failure modes.
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.PP
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In some environments (for example, Kubernetes), there may be many CoreDNS
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instances that started very near the same time and all share a common
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Corefile. To prevent these all from reloading at the same time, some
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jitter is added to the reload check interval. This is jitter from the
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perspective of multiple CoreDNS instances; each instance still checks on a
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regular interval, but all of these instances will have their reloads spread
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out across the jitter duration. This isn't strictly necessary given that the
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reloads are graceful, and can be disabled by setting the jitter to \fB\fC0s\fR.
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.PP
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Jitter is re-calculated whenever the Corefile is reloaded.
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.PP
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This plugin can only be used once per Server Block.
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.SH "SYNTAX"
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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reload [INTERVAL] [JITTER]
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.fi
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.RE
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.PP
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The plugin will check for changes every \fBINTERVAL\fP, subject to +/- the \fBJITTER\fP duration.
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.IP \(bu 4
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\fBINTERVAL\fP and \fBJITTER\fP are Golang durations
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\[la]https://golang.org/pkg/time/#ParseDuration\[ra].
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The default \fBINTERVAL\fP is 30s, default \fBJITTER\fP is 15s, the minimal value for \fBINTERVAL\fP
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is 2s, and for \fBJITTER\fP it is 1s. If \fBJITTER\fP is more than half of \fBINTERVAL\fP, it will be
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set to half of \fBINTERVAL\fP
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.SH "EXAMPLES"
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.PP
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Check with the default intervals:
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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\&. {
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reload
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erratic
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}
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.fi
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.RE
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.PP
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Check every 10 seconds (jitter is automatically set to 10 / 2 = 5 in this case):
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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\&. {
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reload 10s
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erratic
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}
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.fi
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.RE
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.SH "BUGS"
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.PP
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The reload happens without data loss (i.e. DNS queries keep flowing), but there is a corner case
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where the reload fails, and you loose functionality. Consider the following Corefile:
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.PP
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.RS
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.nf
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\&. {
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health :8080
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whoami
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}
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.fi
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.RE
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.PP
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CoreDNS starts and serves health from :8080. Now you change \fB\fC:8080\fR to \fB\fC:443\fR not knowing a process
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is already listening on that port. The process reloads and performs the following steps:
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.IP 1\. 4
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close the listener on 8080
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.IP 2\. 4
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reload and parse the config again
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.IP 3\. 4
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fail to start a new listener on 443
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.IP 4\. 4
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fail loading the new Corefile, abort and keep using the old process
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After the aborted attempt to reload we are left with the old processes running, but the listener is
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closed in step 1; so the health endpoint is broken. The same can happen in the prometheus plugin.
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In general be careful with assigning new port and expecting reload to work fully.
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In CoreDNS v1.6.0 and earlier any \fB\fCimport\fR statements are not discovered by this plugin.
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This means if any of these imported files changes the \fIreload\fP plugin is ignorant of that fact.
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CoreDNS v1.7.0 and later does parse the Corefile and supports detecting changes in imported files.
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.SH "METRICS"
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.PP
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If monitoring is enabled (via the \fIprometheus\fP plugin) then the following metric is exported:
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.IP \(bu 4
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\fB\fCcoredns_reload_failed_total{}\fR - counts the number of failed reload attempts.
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.IP \(bu 4
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\fB\fCcoredns_reload_version_info{hash, value}\fR - record the hash value during reload.
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.PP
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Currently the type of \fB\fChash\fR is "md5", the \fB\fCvalue\fR is the returned hash value.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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See coredns-import(7) and corefile(5).
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