coredns.io/content/explugins/dns64.md

+++ title = "dns64" description = "dns64 - implement the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism." weight = 10 tags = [ "plugin" , "dns64" ] categories = [ "plugin", "external" ] date = "2017-12-24T05:17:00+08:00" repo = "https://github.com/serverwentdown/dns64" home = "https://github.com/serverwentdown/dns64/blob/master/README.md" +++

Description

The dns64 plugin implements the DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism. From Wikipedia:

DNS64 describes a DNS server that when asked for a domain's AAAA records, but only finds A records, synthesizes the AAAA records from the A records.

The synthesis is only performed if the query came in via IPv6.

TODO

Not all features required by DNS64 are implemented, only basic AAAA synthesis.

• Resolve PTR records
• Follow CNAME records
• Make resolver DNSSEC aware

Syntax

dns64 {
    upstream ADDRESS...
    prefix IPV6
}

• upstream specifies the upstream resolver.
• prefix specifies any local IPv6 prefix to use, in addition to the well known prefix (64:ff9b::/96).

Examples

In recursive resolver mode:

# Perform dns64 AAAA synthesizing using 8.8.8.8 for resolving any A
dns64 {
    upstream 8.8.8.8:53
}
proxy . 8.8.8.8:53

To make DNS64 resolve authoritatively, do:

dns64 {
    upstream localhost:53
    # caveat: additional round trip through networking stack
}
file example.com.db

See Also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6_transition_mechanism#DNS64 and RFC 6147.