External Plugins

Out of tree plugins for CoreDNS. A plugin listed here is not automatically endorsed by the CoreDNS team. Issues should be reported to owner(s) of the plugin.

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kubeforward

kubeforward - dynamically updates DNS forwarders based on changes to a specified Kubernetes Service.

JSON

json - query a JSON-formatted DNS server

gslb

gslb (Global Server Load Balancing) functionality in CoreDNS.

fanout

fanout - parallel proxying DNS messages to upstream resolvers.

k8s_cache

k8s_cache is a caching plugin with early refreshes for specified pods

gathersrv

gathersrv plugin allows to gather DNS responses with SRV records from several domains (for example k8s clusters) and hide them behind a single common/distributed domain

meship

meship allows to resolve decentralized .meship domains

meshname

meshname allows to resolve decentralized .meshname domains

multicluster

multicluster plugin is an implementation of Multicluster DNS specification.

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recursor

recursor resolves domains using defined IP addresses or resolving other mapped domains using defined resolvers

k8s_event

k8s_event - reports CoreDNS status to Kubernetes events.

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redis

redis - enables reading zone data from redis database.

finalize

finalize - resolves CNAMEs to their IP address.

kubenodes

kubenodes - creates records for Kubernetes nodes.

ebpf

ebpf - attach an eBPF XDP program to a specified interface.

rrl

rrl - mitigate amplification attacks with response rate limiting

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mysql

mysql - MySQL backend for CoreDNS

warnlist

warnlist emits logs and Prometheus metrics when a listed domain is requested.

git

git - pull git repositories.

alternate

alternate - allow redirecting queries to an alternate set of upstreams based on RCODE

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k8s_dns_chaos

k8s_dns_chaos - enables inject DNS chaos in a Kubernetes cluster for Chaos Engineering.

records

records - enables serving (basic) zone data directly from the Corefile.

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k8s_gateway

k8s_gateway - plugin to resolve all types of external Kubernetes resources.

netbox

netbox - enables reading zone data from a netbox instance.

mdns

mdns - serves ‘.local’ mDNS info over normal DNS.

wgsd

wgsd - serves WireGuard peer information via DNS-SD semantics to enable endpoint discovery and NAT traversal.

alias

alias - replaces zone apex CNAMEs.

lighthouse

lighthouse - facilitate DNS discovery in multi-cluster connected environments.

idetcd

idetcd - etcd-based CoreDNS plugin used for identifying nodes in a cluster without domain name collision.

gravwell

gravwell - integrate into Gravwell auditing.

amazondns

amazondns - enables serving an authoritative name server using Amazon DNS Server as the backend.

kubernetai

kubernetai - serve multiple Kubernetes within a Server.

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redisc

redisc - enables a networked cache using Redis.

unbound

unbound - perform recursive queries using libunbound.

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on

on - executes a command when a specified event is triggered.

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dump

dump - dumps all incoming queries on standard output.

pdsql

pdsql - uses powerdns generic sql as backend.

ipin

ipin - returns IP address and port based on you domain name.

demo

demo - returns 1.1.1.1 for 172.0.0.0/8 or 127.0.0.0/8 and 8.8.8.8 otherwise

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example

example - prints ’example’ on every query received.

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ens

ens - serve DNS records from the Ethereum Name Service.

ipecho

ipecho - parses the IP out of a subdomain and echos it back as an record

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Enabled by default: CoreDNS has this plugin by default.