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.TH "COREDNS-IMPORT" "7" "April 2019" "CoreDNS" "CoreDNS Plugins"

.SH NAME
.PP
\fIimport\fP - include files or reference snippets from a Corefile.

.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
The \fIimport\fP plugin can be used to include files into the main configuration. Another use it to
reference predefined snippets. Both can help to avoid some duplication.

.PP
This is a unique directive in that \fIimport\fP can appear outside of a server block. In other words, it
can appear at the top of a Corefile where an address would normally be.

.SH SYNTAX
.PP
.RS

.nf
import PATTERN

.fi
.RE

.IP \(bu 4
\fBPATTERN\fP is the file, glob pattern (\fB\fC*\fR) or snippet to include. Its contents will replace
this line, as if that file's contents appeared here to begin with.


.SH FILES
.PP
You can use \fIimport\fP to include a file or files. This file's location is relative to the
Corefile's location. It is an error if a specific file cannot be found, but an empty glob pattern is
not an error.

.SH SNIPPETS
.PP
You can define snippets to be reused later in your Corefile by defining a block with a single-token
label surrounded by parentheses:

.PP
.RS

.nf
(mysnippet) {
	...
}

.fi
.RE

.PP
Then you can invoke the snippet with \fIimport\fP:

.PP
.RS

.nf
import mysnippet

.fi
.RE

.SH EXAMPLES
.PP
Import a shared configuration:

.PP
.RS

.nf
\&. {
   import config/common.conf
}

.fi
.RE

.PP
Where \fB\fCconfig/common.conf\fR contains:

.PP
.RS

.nf
prometheus
errors
log

.fi
.RE

.PP
This imports files found in the zones directory:

.PP
.RS

.nf
import ../zones/*

.fi
.RE

.SH ALSO SEE
.PP
See corefile(5).