diff --git a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
index f980fb4ee..1d9a7ec74 100644
--- a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
+++ b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes.go
@@ -271,33 +271,6 @@ func (k *Kubernetes) Records(ctx context.Context, state request.Request, exact b
 	return services, err
 }
 
-// serviceFQDN returns the k8s cluster dns spec service FQDN for the service (or endpoint) object.
-func serviceFQDN(obj meta.Object, zone string) string {
-	return dnsutil.Join(obj.GetName(), obj.GetNamespace(), Svc, zone)
-}
-
-// podFQDN returns the k8s cluster dns spec FQDN for the pod.
-func podFQDN(p *object.Pod, zone string) string {
-	if strings.Contains(p.PodIP, ".") {
-		name := strings.Replace(p.PodIP, ".", "-", -1)
-		return dnsutil.Join(name, p.GetNamespace(), Pod, zone)
-	}
-
-	name := strings.Replace(p.PodIP, ":", "-", -1)
-	return dnsutil.Join(name, p.GetNamespace(), Pod, zone)
-}
-
-// endpointFQDN returns a list of k8s cluster dns spec service FQDNs for each subset in the endpoint.
-func endpointFQDN(ep *object.Endpoints, zone string, endpointNameMode bool) []string {
-	var names []string
-	for _, ss := range ep.Subsets {
-		for _, addr := range ss.Addresses {
-			names = append(names, dnsutil.Join(endpointHostname(addr, endpointNameMode), serviceFQDN(ep, zone)))
-		}
-	}
-	return names
-}
-
 func endpointHostname(addr object.EndpointAddress, endpointNameMode bool) string {
 	if addr.Hostname != "" {
 		return addr.Hostname
diff --git a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
index c04574e8c..57b735d7b 100644
--- a/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
+++ b/plugin/kubernetes/kubernetes_test.go
@@ -355,73 +355,3 @@ func TestServicesAuthority(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-func TestServiceFQDN(t *testing.T) {
-	fqdn := serviceFQDN(
-		&object.Service{
-			Name:      "svc1",
-			Namespace: "testns",
-		}, "cluster.local")
-
-	expected := "svc1.testns.svc.cluster.local."
-	if fqdn != expected {
-		t.Errorf("Expected '%v', got '%v'.", expected, fqdn)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestPodFQDN(t *testing.T) {
-	fqdn := podFQDN(
-		&object.Pod{
-			Name:      "pod1",
-			Namespace: "testns",
-			PodIP:     "10.10.0.10",
-		}, "cluster.local")
-
-	expected := "10-10-0-10.testns.pod.cluster.local."
-	if fqdn != expected {
-		t.Errorf("Expected '%v', got '%v'.", expected, fqdn)
-	}
-	fqdn = podFQDN(
-		&object.Pod{
-			Name:      "pod1",
-			Namespace: "testns",
-			PodIP:     "aaaa:bbbb:cccc::zzzz",
-		}, "cluster.local")
-
-	expected = "aaaa-bbbb-cccc--zzzz.testns.pod.cluster.local."
-	if fqdn != expected {
-		t.Errorf("Expected '%v', got '%v'.", expected, fqdn)
-	}
-}
-
-func TestEndpointFQDN(t *testing.T) {
-	fqdns := endpointFQDN(
-		&object.Endpoints{
-			Subsets: []object.EndpointSubset{
-				{
-					Addresses: []object.EndpointAddress{
-						{
-							IP:       "172.0.0.1",
-							Hostname: "ep1a",
-						},
-						{
-							IP: "172.0.0.2",
-						},
-					},
-				},
-			},
-			Name:      "svc1",
-			Namespace: "testns",
-		}, "cluster.local", false)
-
-	expected := []string{
-		"ep1a.svc1.testns.svc.cluster.local.",
-		"172-0-0-2.svc1.testns.svc.cluster.local.",
-	}
-
-	for i := range fqdns {
-		if fqdns[i] != expected[i] {
-			t.Errorf("Expected '%v', got '%v'.", expected[i], fqdns[i])
-		}
-	}
-}