any
any gives a minimal response to ANY queries.
auto
auto enables serving zone data from an RFC 1035-style master file, which is automatically picked up from disk.
autopath
autopath allows for server-side search path completion.
azure
azure enables serving zone data from Microsoft Azure DNS service.
bind
bind overrides the host to which the server should bind.
cache
cache enables a frontend cache.
cancel
cancel cancels a request’s context after 5001 milliseconds.
chaos
chaos allows for responding to TXT queries in the CH class.
clouddns
clouddns enables serving zone data from GCP Cloud DNS.
debug
debug disables the automatic recovery upon a crash so that you’ll get a nice stack trace.
dnssec
dnssec enables on-the-fly DNSSEC signing of served data.
dnstap
dnstap enables logging to dnstap.
erratic
erratic a plugin useful for testing client behavior.
errors
errors enables error logging.
etcd
etcd enables SkyDNS service discovery from etcd.
file
file enables serving zone data from an RFC 1035-style master file.
forward
forward facilitates proxying DNS messages to upstream resolvers.
grpc
grpc facilitates proxying DNS messages to upstream resolvers via gRPC protocol.
health
health enables a health check endpoint.
hosts
hosts enables serving zone data from a /etc/hosts style file.
import
import includes files or references snippets from a Corefile.
k8s_external
k8s_external resolves load balancer and external IPs from outside Kubernetes clusters.
kubernetes
kubernetes enables reading zone data from a Kubernetes cluster.
loadbalance
loadbalance randomizes the order of A, AAAA and MX records.
log
log enables query logging to standard output.
loop
loop detects simple forwarding loops and halts the server.
metadata
metadata enables a metadata collector.
prometheus
prometheus enables Prometheus metrics.
nsid
nsid adds an identifier of this server to each reply.
pprof
pprof publishes runtime profiling data at endpoints under /debug/pprof.
ready
ready enables a readiness check HTTP endpoint.
reload
reload allows automatic reload of a changed Corefile.
rewrite
rewrite performs internal message rewriting.
root
root simply specifies the root of where to find (zone) files.
route53
route53 enables serving zone data from AWS route53.
secondary
secondary enables serving a zone retrieved from a primary server.
sign
sign adds DNSSEC records to zone files.
template
template allows for dynamic responses based on the incoming query.
tls
tls allows you to configure the server certificates for the TLS and gRPC servers.
trace
trace enables OpenTracing-based tracing of DNS requests as they go through the plugin chain.
whoami
whoami returns your resolver’s local IP address, port and transport.