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 [![Code Coverage](https://img.shields.io/codecov/c/github/coredns/coredns/master.svg)](https://codecov.io/github/coredns/coredns?branch=master)
 [![Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/coredns/coredns)](https://goreportcard.com/report/coredns/coredns)
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 CoreDNS is a DNS server that started as a fork of [Caddy](https://github.com/mholt/caddy/). It has
 the same model: it chains middleware. In fact it's so similar that CoreDNS is now a server type