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 CoreDNS is DNS server that started as a fork of [Caddy](https://github.com/mholt/caddy/). It has the
 same model: it chains middleware.
 
-It is in the early stages of development on should be used on production servers. For now most
+It is in the early stages of development and should **not** be used on production servers yet. For now most
 documentation is in the source and some blog articles can be [found
 here](https://miek.nl/tags/coredns/).