fanmerge

Name

fanmerge - parallel proxying DNS messages to upstream resolvers.

Description

Each incoming DNS query that hits the CoreDNS fanmerge plugin will be replicated in parallel to each listed IP (i.e. the DNS servers). All non-negative responses from any of the queried DNS Servers will be forwarded as a merged response to the application's DNS request.

Syntax

• tls CERT KEY CA define the TLS properties for TLS connection. From 0 to 3 arguments can be provided with the meaning as described below

  • tls - no client authentication is used, and the system CAs are used to verify the server certificate
  • tls CA - no client authentication is used, and the file CA is used to verify the server certificate
  • tls CERT KEY - client authentication is used with the specified cert/key pair. The server certificate is verified with the system CAs
  • tls CERT KEY CA - client authentication is used with the specified cert/key pair. The server certificate is verified using the specified CA file

• tls_servername NAME allows you to set a server name in the TLS configuration; for instance 9.9.9.9 needs this to be set to dns.quad9.net. Multiple upstreams are still allowed in this scenario, but they have to use the same tls_servername. E.g. mixing 9.9.9.9 (QuadDNS) with 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare) will not work.

• worker-count is the number of parallel queries per request. By default equals to count of IP list. Use this only for reducing parallel queries per request.

• network is a specific network protocol. Could be tcp, udp, tcp-tls.

• except is a list is a space-separated list of domains to exclude from proxying.

• except-file is the path to file with line-separated list of domains to exclude from proxying.

• attempt-count is the number of attempts to connect to upstream servers that are needed before considering an upstream to be down. If 0, the upstream will never be marked as down and request will be finished by timeout. Default is 3.

• timeout is the timeout of request. After this period, attempts to receive a response from the upstream servers will be stopped. Default is 30s.

Metrics

If monitoring is enabled (via the prometheus plugin) then the following metric are exported:

• coredns_fanmerge_request_duration_seconds{to} - duration per upstream interaction.
• coredns_fanmerge_request_count_total{to} - query count per upstream.
• coredns_fanmerge_response_rcode_count_total{to, rcode} - count of RCODEs per upstream.
• coredns_fanmerge_healthcheck_failure_count_total{to} - number of failed health checks per upstream.
• coredns_fanmerge_healthcheck_broken_count_total{} - counter of when all upstreams are unhealthy, and we are randomly (this always uses the random policy) spraying to an upstream.

Where to is one of the upstream servers (TO from the config), rcode is the returned RCODE from the upstream.

Examples

Proxy all requests within example.org. to a nameservers running on a different ports. All positive responses from a proxy will be provided as the merged result.

example.org {
    fanmerge . 127.0.0.1:9005 127.0.0.1:9006 127.0.0.1:9007 127.0.0.1:9008
}

Sends parallel requests between three resolvers, one of which has a IPv6 address via TCP. All positive responses from a proxy will be provided as the merged result.

. {
    fanmerge . 10.0.0.10:53 10.0.0.11:1053 [2003::1]:53 {
        network TCP
    }
}

Proxying everything except requests to example.org

. {
    fanmerge . 10.0.0.10:1234 {
        except example.org
    }
}

Proxy everything except example.org using the host's resolv.conf's nameservers:

. {
    fanmerge . /etc/resolv.conf {
        except example.org
    }
}

Proxy all requests to 9.9.9.9 using the DNS-over-TLS protocol. Note the tls-server is mandatory if you want a working setup, as 9.9.9.9 can't be used in the TLS negotiation.

. {
    fanmerge . tls://9.9.9.9 {
       tls-server dns.quad9.net
    }
}

Sends parallel requests between five resolvers via UDP uses two workers and without attempting to reconnect. All positive responses from a proxy will be provided as the merged result.

. {
    fanmerge . 10.0.0.10:53 10.0.0.11:53 10.0.0.12:53 10.0.0.13:1053 10.0.0.14:1053 {
        worker-count 2
    }
}