auto
Name
auto - enables serving zone data from an RFC 1035-style master file which is automatically picked up from disk.
Description
The auto plugin is used for an "old-style" DNS server. It serves from a preloaded file that exists
on disk. If the zone file contains signatures (i.e. is signed, i.e. DNSSEC) correct DNSSEC answers
are returned. Only NSEC is supported! If you use this setup you are responsible for resigning the
zonefile. New zones or changed zone are automatically picked up from disk.
Syntax
auto [ZONES...] {
directory DIR [REGEXP ORIGIN_TEMPLATE [TIMEOUT]]
no_reload
upstream ADDRESS...
}
ZONES zones it should be authoritative for. If empty, the zones from the configuration block
are used.
directory
loads zones from the speficied DIR. If a file name matches REGEXP it will be
used to extract the origin. ORIGIN_TEMPLATE will be used as a template for the origin. Strings
like {<number>}
are replaced with the respective matches in the file name, i.e. {1}
is the
first match, {2}
is the second, etc.. The default is: db\.(.*) {1}
e.g. from a file with the
name db.example.com
, the extracted origin will be example.com
. TIMEOUT specifies how often
CoreDNS should scan the directory, the default is every 60 seconds. This value is in seconds.
The minimum value is 1 second.
no_reload
by default CoreDNS will try to reload a zone every minute and reloads if the
SOA's serial has changed. This option disables that behavior.
upstream
defines upstream resolvers to be used resolve external names found (think CNAMEs)
pointing to external names. ADDRESS can be an IP address, and IP:port or a string pointing to
a file that is structured as /etc/resolv.conf.
All directives from the file plugin are supported. Note that auto will load all zones found,
even though the directive might only receive queries for a specific zone. I.e:
. {
auto example.org {
directory /etc/coredns/zones
}
}
Will happily pick up a zone for example.COM
, except it will never be queried, because the auto
directive only is authoritative for example.ORG
.
Examples
Load org
domains from /etc/coredns/zones/org
and allow transfers to the internet, but send
notifies to 10.240.1.1
. {
auto org {
directory /etc/coredns/zones/org
transfer to *
transfer to 10.240.1.1
}
}
Load org
domains from /etc/coredns/zones/org
and looks for file names as www.db.example.org
,
where example.org
is the origin. Scan every 45 seconds.
org {
auto {
directory /etc/coredns/zones/org www\.db\.(.*) {1} 45
}
}