Plugins
All in-tree plugins for CoreDNS.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.
bind
bind overrides the host to which the server should bind.
cache
cache enables a frontend cache.
chaos
chaos allows for responding to TXT queries in the CH class.
debug
debug disables the automatic recovery upon a crash so that you’ll get a nice stack trace.
dnssec
dnssec enable on-the-fly DNSSEC signing of served data.
dnstap
dnstap enable logging to dnstap.
erratic
erratic a plugin useful for testing client behavior.
errors
errors enable error logging.
etcd
etcd enables reading zone data from an etcd version 3 instance.
federation
federation enables federated queries to be resolved via the kubernetes plugin.
file
file enables serving zone data from an RFC 1035-style master file.
forward
forward facilitates proxying DNS messages to upstream resolvers.
health
health enables a health check endpoint.
hosts
hosts enables serving zone data from a /etc/hosts style file.
k8s_external
k8s_external resolve load balancer and external IPs from outside kubernetes clusters.
kubernetes
kubernetes enables the reading zone data from a Kubernetes cluster.
loadbalance
loadbalance randomize the order of A, AAAA and MX records.
log
log enables query logging to standard output.
loop
loop detect simple forwarding loops and halt the server.
metadata
metadata enable a meta data 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.
reverse
reverse allows for dynamic responses to PTR and the related A/AAAA requests.
proxy
proxy facilitates both a basic reverse proxy and a robust load balancer.
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.
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.