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Fixes #2757

Signed-off-by: Miek Gieben <miek@miek.nl>
2019-04-06 08:42:40 +01:00

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.TH "COREDNS-CANCEL" "7" "April 2019" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS Plugins"
.SH CANCEL
.SH NAME
.PP
\fIcancel\fP - a plugin that cancels a request's context after 5001 milliseconds.
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fIcancel\fP plugin creates a canceling context for each request. It adds a timeout that gets
triggered after 5001 milliseconds.
.PP
The 5001 number is chosen because the default timeout for DNS clients is 5 seconds, after that they
give up.
.PP
A plugin interested in the cancellation status should call \fB\fCplugin.Done()\fR on the context. If the
context was canceled due to a timeout the plugin should not write anything back to the client and
return a value indicating CoreDNS should not either; a zero return value should suffice for that.
.PP
.RS
.nf
cancel [TIMEOUT]
.fi
.RE
.IP \(bu 4
\fBTIMEOUT\fP allows setting a custom timeout. The default timeout is 5001 milliseconds (\fB\fC5001 ms\fR)
.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
.RS
.nf
\&. {
cancel
whoami
}
.fi
.RE
.PP
Or with a custom timeout:
.PP
.RS
.nf
\&. {
cancel 1s
whoami
}
.fi
.RE
.SH ALSO SEE
.PP
The Go documentation for the context package.