COREDNS(1) CoreDNS COREDNS(1) COREDNS coredns - pluggable DNS nameserver optimized for service discovery and flexibility. SYNOPSIS coredns [-conf FILE] [-dns.port PORT} [OPTION]... DESCRIPTION CoreDNS is a DNS server that chains plugins. Each plugin handles a DNS fea- ture, like rewriting queries, kubernetes service discovery or just export- ing metrics. There are many other plugins, each described on https://coredns.io/plugins <https://coredns.io/plugins> and their respec- tive manual pages. Plugins not bundled by default in CoreDNS are listed on https://coredns.io/explugins <https://coredns.io/explugins>. When started without options CoreDNS will look for a file named Corefile in the current directory, if found, it will parse its contents and start up accordingly. If no Corefile is found it will start with the whoami plugin (coredns-whoami(7)) and start listening on port 53 (unless overridden with -dns.port). Available options: -conf FILE specify Corefile to load, if not given CoreDNS will look for a Core- file in the current directory. -dns.port PORT or -p PORT override default port (53) to listen on. -pidfile FILE write PID to FILE. -plugins list all plugins and quit. -quiet don't print any version and port information on startup. -version show version and quit. -windows-service run as a Windows service (only available on Windows builds, default false). AUTHORS CoreDNS Authors. COPYRIGHT Apache License 2.0 SEE ALSO Corefile(5) coredns-acl(7) coredns-any(7) coredns-auto(7) coredns-au- topath(7) coredns-azure(7) coredns-bind(7) coredns-bufsize(7) coredns- cache(7) coredns-cancel(7) coredns-chaos(7) coredns-clouddns(7) coredns-de- bug(7) coredns-dns64(7) coredns-dnssec(7) coredns-dnstap(7) coredns-er- ratic(7) coredns-errors(7) coredns-etcd(7) coredns-file(7) coredns-for- ward(7) coredns-geoip(7) coredns-grpc(7) coredns-grpcserver(7) coredns- header(7) coredns-health(7) coredns-hosts(7) coredns-https(7) coredns- https3(7) coredns-import(7) coredns-k8sexternal(7) coredns-kubernetes(7) coredns-loadbalance(7) coredns-local(7) coredns-log(7) coredns-loop(7) coredns-metadata(7) coredns-metrics(7) coredns-minimal(7) coredns-multi- socket(7) coredns-nomad(7) coredns-nsid(7) coredns-pprof(7) coredns-prox- yproto(7) coredns-quic(7) coredns-ready(7) coredns-reload(7) coredns- rewrite(7) coredns-root(7) coredns-route53(7) coredns-secondary(7) coredns- sign(7) coredns-template(7) coredns-timeouts(7) coredns-tls(7) coredns- trace(7) coredns-transfer(7) coredns-tsig(7) coredns-view(7) coredns- whoami(7). CoreDNS March 2026 COREDNS(1)
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