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 # CoreDNS
 
-CoreDNS is DNS server that started as a fork of [Caddy](https://github.com/mholt/caddy/). It has the
-same model: it chains middleware. In fact to similar that CoreDNS is now a server type plugin for
-CAddy, i.e. you'll need Caddy to compile CoreDNS.
+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 plugin for
+Caddy, i.e., you'll need Caddy to compile CoreDNS.
 
-CoreDNS is the successor of [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns). SkyDNS is a thin
+CoreDNS is the successor to [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns). SkyDNS is a thin
 layer that exposes services in etcd in the DNS. CoreDNS builds on this idea and is a generic DNS
 server that can talk to multiple backends (etcd, consul, kubernetes, etc.).
 
-CoreDNS aims to be a fast and flexible DNS server. The keyword here is *flexible*, with CoreDNS you
-are able to do what you want with your DNS data. And if not: write a middleware!
+CoreDNS aims to be a fast and flexible DNS server. The keyword here is *flexible*: with CoreDNS you
+are able to do what you want with your DNS data. And if not: write some middleware!
 
 Currently CoreDNS is able to:
 
-* Serve zone data from a file, both DNSSEC (NSEC only) and DNS is supported (middleware/file).
-* Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e. act as a secondary server (AXFR only) (middleware/secondary).
+* Serve zone data from a file; both DNSSEC (NSEC only) and DNS are supported (middleware/file).
+* Retrieve zone data from primaries, i.e., act as a secondary server (AXFR only) (middleware/secondary).
 * Sign zone data on-the-fly (middleware/dnssec).
-* Loadbalancing of responses (middleware/loadbalance).
-* Allow for zone transfers, i.e. act as a primary server (middleware/file).
+* Load balancing of responses (middleware/loadbalance).
+* Allow for zone transfers, i.e., act as a primary server (middleware/file).
 * Caching (middleware/cache).
 * Health checking (middleware/health).
-* Use etcd as a backend, i.e. a 101.5% replacement for
+* Use etcd as a backend, i.e., a 101.5% replacement for
   [SkyDNS](https://github.com/skynetservices/skydns) (middleware/etcd).
 * Use k8s (kubernetes) as a backend (middleware/kubernetes).
 * Serve as a proxy to forward queries to some other (recursive) nameserver (middleware/proxy).
-* Rewrite queries (both qtype, qclass and qname) (middleware/rewrite).
+* Rewrite queries (qtype, qclass and qname) (middleware/rewrite).
 * Provide metrics (by using Prometheus) (middleware/metrics).
 * Provide Logging (middleware/log).
-* Has support for the CH class: `version.bind` and friends (middleware/chaos).
+* Support the CH class: `version.bind` and friends (middleware/chaos).
 * Profiling support (middleware/pprof).
 
-Each of the middlewares has a README.md of their own.
+Each of the middlewares has a README.md of its own.
 
 ## Status
 
 I'm using CoreDNS is my primary, authoritative, nameserver for my domains (`miek.nl`, `atoom.net`
-and a few others). CoreDNS should be stable enough to provide you with a good DNS(SEC) service.
+and a few others). CoreDNS should be stable enough to provide you with good DNS(SEC) service.
 
 There are still few [issues](https://github.com/miekg/coredns/issues), and work is ongoing on making
-things fast and reduce the memory usage.
+things fast and to reduce the memory usage.
 
 All in all, CoreDNS should be able to provide you with enough functionality to replace parts of
-BIND9, Knot, NSD or PowerDNS and SkyDNS.
+BIND 9, Knot, NSD or PowerDNS and SkyDNS.
 Most documentation is in the source and some blog articles can be [found
 here](https://miek.nl/tags/coredns/). If you do want to use CoreDNS in production, please let us
 know and how we can help.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Caddyfile when I forked it).
 ## Compilation
 
 CoreDNS (as a servertype plugin for Caddy) has a dependency on Caddy - this is *almost* like
-the normal Go dependencies, but with a small twist, caddy (the source) need to know that CoreDNS
+the normal Go dependencies, but with a small twist: caddy (the source) need to know that CoreDNS
 exists and for this we need to add 1 line `_ "github.com/miekg/coredns/core"` to file in caddy.
 
 You have the source of CoreDNS, this should preferably be downloaded under your `$GOPATH`. Get all
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ dependencies:
 
     go get ./...
 
-Then, execute `go generate`, this will patch Caddy to add CoreDNS (and remove the HTTP server
+Then, execute `go generate`. This will patch Caddy to add CoreDNS (and remove the HTTP server
 plugin), and then `go build` as you would normally do:
 
     go generate
     go build
 
-Should yield a `coredns` binary.
+This should yield a `coredns` binary.
 
 ## Examples
 
@@ -82,10 +82,10 @@ Start a simple proxy, you'll need to be root to start listening on port 53.
 ~~~
 
 Just start CoreDNS: `./coredns`.
-And then just query on that port (53), the query should be forwarded to 8.8.8.8 and the response
+And then just query on that port (53). The query should be forwarded to 8.8.8.8 and the response
 will be returned. Each query should also show up in the log.
 
-Serve the (NSEC) DNSSEC signed `example.org` on port 1053, errors and logging to stdout. Allow zone
+Serve the (NSEC) DNSSEC-signed `example.org` on port 1053, with errors and logging sent to stdout. Allow zone
 transfers to everybody, but specically mention 1 IP address so that CoreDNS can send notifies to it.
 
 ~~~ txt