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---
title: Native DNS Support [alpha]
---
<p class="note">Note: This feature is still under development; however, there are portions of DNS functionality that are already available in bosh-release v262+. 3421+ Linux stemcells are required.</p>
Using DNS instead of plain IPs within deployments:
- allows use of dynamic networks since IPs change with every redeploy
- provides a way to reference deployed VMs more transparently
- provides client side load balancing
- reduces number of configuration changes that need to be propagated when changing cluster layout
Historically BOSH users did not have an easy highly available solution to enable DNS for their deployments. PowerDNS was a possible choice; however, it required more advanced configuration that we felt comfortable recommending to everyone.
Addition of native BOSH DNS integration solves these problems without making it hard to deploy and operate DNS servers.
---
## <a id='arch'></a> Architecture
To provide native DNS support following changes were made:
- Director keeps track of DNS entries assigned to each instance
- Agent (on stemcells 3421+) updates DNS records metadata on its VM
- DNS release (more details below) provides resolution of BOSH specific DNS records
Given that the Director is the sole orchestrator of the system, it is now responsible for updating DNS records during a deploy. As VMs are created and deleted following DNS related steps happen:
1. Director notices that VM, after it's created or deleted, changed its IP
1. Director creates a new DNS records dataset and saves it to the blobstore
1. Director issues sync_dns Agent call to *all* VMs (in all deployments)
1. Each Agent downloads new DNS records dataset and updates `/var/vcap/instance/dns/records.json`
1. DNS release sees that local `/var/vcap/instance/dns/records.json` is updated, hence returns new information in future DNS requests
See [Deploying step-by-step](deploying-step-by-step.html) for full Director deployment flow.
---
## <a id='dns-release'></a> DNS release
To take advantage of native DNS functionality, it's expected that [DNS release](https://bosh.io/releases/github.com/cloudfoundry/dns-release?all=1) runs on each VM. We recommend to colocate DNS release by definiting it in an [addon](runtime-config.html#addons).
DNS release provides two jobs: `dns` (for Linux) and `dns-windows` (for Windows) which start a simple DNS server bound to a [link local address](https://bosh.io/jobs/dns?source=github.com/cloudfoundry/dns-release#p=address).
### <a id='aliases'></a> Aliases
DNS release allows operators to specify custom names for BOSH generated DNS records to ease migration or work with legacy software that requires very specific DNS record formats (e.g. `master0`, `slave0`, `slave1`).
There are two ways to specify aliases:
- via [`aliases` property](https://bosh.io/jobs/dns?source=github.com/cloudfoundry/dns-release#p=aliases)
- via `dns/aliases.json` template inside your job
Example usage of `aliases` property:
```yaml
properties:
aliases:
cc.cf.consul: [q-all.cloud-controller.default.cf.bosh]
```
See [Migrating from Consul](dns.html#migrate-consul) for more details.
### Healthiness
<p class="note">Note: This feature is not released yet.</p>
DNS release provides a way to reference all instances (or a subset of instances) in an instance group. By default only heatlhy instances are returned from a group query. The notion of instance healthiness is directly tied to the state of processes running on a VM. DNS release will continiously poll for updated healthiness information (same information is visible via `bosh instances --ps` command) on all instances from groups that were resolved at least once.
---
## <a id='enable'></a> Enabling DNS
To enable native BOSH functionality, you must first enable [`local_dns.enabled` property](https://bosh.io/jobs/director?source=github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh#p=director.local_dns.enabled) in the Director job. See [bosh-deployment's local-dns.yml](https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-deployment/blob/master/local-dns.yml) as an example.
Enabling `local_dns.enabled` configuration will make Director broadcast DNS updates to all VMs. Only VMs based on 3421+ Linux stemcells will accept DNS broadcast message.
If you were relying on instance index based DNS records, you must enable [`local_dns.include_index` property](https://bosh.io/jobs/director?source=github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh#p=director.local_dns.enabled) in the Director job.
Additionally you should colocate DNS release via an addon in all your deployments. See [bosh-deployment's runtime-configs/dns.yml](https://github.com/cloudfoundry/bosh-deployment/blob/master/runtime-configs/dns.yml) as an example.
---
## <a id='links'></a> Impact on links
Once native DNS is enabled, addresses provided via links will include DNS records instead of IPs. Note that links provided by instance groups placed on dynamic networks will always provide DNS addresses.
```ruby
# before
link("db").instances[0].address => "172.10.10.0"
# after
link("db").instances[0].address => "ef489dd9-48f6-45f0-b7af-7f3437919b17.db.default.db.bosh"
```
---
## <a id='migrate-powerdns'></a> Migrating from PowerDNS
Historically BOSH users did not have an easy highly available solution to enable DNS for their deployments. PowerDNS was a possible choice; however, it required more advanced configuration that we felt comfortable recommending to everyone. We are planning to deprecate and remove PowerDNS integration. To migrate from PowerDNS to native DNS:
1. continue deploying Director with `powerdns` job
1. enable native DNS (follow [Enabling DNS](dns.html#enable) section above) with proper recursors configured
1. redeploy all deployments and make sure that native DNS is in use
1. redeploy Director without `powerdns` job
---
## <a id='migrate-consul'></a> Migrating from Consul
To ease migration from Consul DNS entries, DNS release provides [aliases feature](dns.html#aliases). It allows operators to define custom DNS entries that can map to BOSH generated DNS entries. To migrate off of Consul to native DNS:
1. enable native DNS (follow [Enabling DNS](dns.html#enable) section above) with proper recursors configured
1. continue deploying `consul_agent` job
1. define native DNS aliases that match existing Consul DNS entries
1. redeploy all deployments that use Consul
1. redeploy all deployments without `consul_agent` job