Commit 913cffd4 authored by Miek Gieben's avatar Miek Gieben

Updates to README

parent 10db2a80
...@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Currently CoreDNS is able to: ...@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ Currently CoreDNS is able to:
* Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e. act as a secondary server. * Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e. act as a secondary server.
* Loadbalancing of responses. * Loadbalancing of responses.
* Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server. * Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server.
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 94.5% replacement for * Caching
* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 98.5% replacement for
[SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns). [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns).
* Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver. * Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver.
* Rewrite queries (both qtype, qclass and qname). * Rewrite queries (both qtype, qclass and qname).
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...@@ -20,10 +20,19 @@ A cache mostly makes sense with a middleware that is potentially slow, i.e. a pr ...@@ -20,10 +20,19 @@ A cache mostly makes sense with a middleware that is potentially slow, i.e. a pr
answer, or to minimize backend queries for middleware like etcd. Using a cache with the file answer, or to minimize backend queries for middleware like etcd. Using a cache with the file
middleware essentially doubles the memory load with no concealable increase of query speed. middleware essentially doubles the memory load with no concealable increase of query speed.
The minimum TTL allowed on resource records is 5 seconds.
## Examples ## Examples
~~~ ~~~
cache cache 10
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Enable caching for all zones, but cap everything to a TTL of 10 seconds.
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proxy . 8.8.8.8:53
cache miek.nl
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Enable caching for all zones. Proxy to Google Public DNS and only cache responses for miek.nl (or below).
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