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DNS for Services and Pods — A/AAAA records

Kube-DNS versions, prior to the implementation of the DNS specification, had the following DNS resolution For example, if a Pod in the default namespace has the IP address 172.17.0.3, and the domain name for your cluster is cluster.local, then the Pod has a DNS name Some cluster DNS mechanisms, like

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). Kube-DNS versions, prior to the implementation of the DNS specification, had the following DNS resolution For example, if a Pod in the default namespace has the IP address 172.17.0.3, and the domain name for your cluster is cluster.local, then the Pod has a DNS name Some cluster DNS mechanisms, like CoreDNS, also provide A records for For example, if a Pod in the cafe namespace has the IP address 172.17.0.3, is an endpoint of a Service named barista, and the domain name for your cluster is cluster.local, then the Pod would have this service-scoped DNS A record. Attribution: Adapted from Kubernetes Documentation under CC-BY-4.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, removed long code blocks, and shortened it for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.
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