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Comment by remram | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone use CoreDNS? Outside of a Kubernetes cluster I mean.

Yes lots of folks[0]. At Cruise we made use of it to do split dns when were migrating from aws to gcp but dont know if it’s still used

[0] - https://github.com/coredns/coredns/blob/master/ADOPTERS.md

Interesting. I wonder how PowerDNS and CoreDNS compare, they seem to be targeting very similar use cases, with a strong focus on extensibility.

I personally prefer CoreDNS given its open nature (CNCF) and being written in Go but I'm a little biased :) There's probably a case to made for PowerDNS if you need to run something business critical on it and require support to be available with tight SLO. Also CoreDNS doesn't do recursive queries by default but there's an out-of-tree plugin wrapping libunbound[0] - its use-case is more of being a highly-configurable/programmable authoritative server.

[0] - https://coredns.io/explugins/unbound/

I use it as a caching proxy on my homeprod nodes. I want docker containers to be able to query Tailscale's MagicDNS without using host-mode networking everywhere. My config is really simple, just forward .ts.net to 100.100.100.100 and otherwise forward to NextDNS.

How’s Nextdns been? I’ve been using pihole for ages but i’m not too impressed by how much latency I have hitting my home network for dns when far from home. I use Tailscale to vpn on demand when off my home WiFi and route dns thru my pihole vm. Considering relocating it to a VPS but then I started to think maybe nextdns will be less painful to manage and offer better performance. I have decent upload speed (50mbit) but the latency over cellular isn’t the best.

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