Contributor
An Xiao

Support Source IP Based Query Block/Allow in CoreDNS


Mentors
Yong Tang
Organization
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)

When CoreDNS serves DNS queries publicly or inside Kubernetes clusters, the source IP of the incoming DNS query is an important identity. For security considerations, only certain queries (from specific source-IP or CIDR block) should be allowed to prevent the server from being attacked. The goal of this project is to support a firewall-like source-IP based block/allow mechanism for CoreDNS. With our plugin (named as firewall) enabled, users are able to define ACLs for any DNS queries, i.e. allowing authorized queries to recurse or blocking unauthorized queries towards protected DNS zones.