# CoreDNS DNS Interface

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-dns-api/  
**Provider:** CoreDNS — https://apis.io/providers/coredns/  
**Documentation:** https://coredns.io/manual/toc/

CoreDNS DNS Interface is one of 5 APIs that [CoreDNS](https://apis.io/providers/coredns/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include DNS, DoH, DoQ, DoT, and Kubernetes. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

CoreDNS implements the standard DNS protocol (RFC 1035) serving both UDP and TCP queries. In Kubernetes, it resolves service names to cluster IPs, headless services to pod IPs, and supports SRV records for port discovery. The Kubernetes plugin watches the API server for service and endpoint changes to keep DNS records current. Additional protocol bindings include DNS-over-TLS (DoT), DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH), DNS-over-QUIC (DoQ), and gRPC.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://coredns.io/manual/toc/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/coredns/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other CoreDNS APIs (4)

- [CoreDNS Plugin API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-plugin-api/)
- [CoreDNS Health API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-health-api/)
- [CoreDNS Metrics API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-metrics-api/)
- [CoreDNS Ready API](https://apis.io/apis/coredns/coredns-ready-api/)

## Tags

DNS, DoH, DoQ, DoT, Kubernetes, Service Discovery

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