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Manage NodeLocalDNS¶
With NodeLocalDNS you can run a local instance of the DNS caching agent on each node in the MKE cluster. This can significantly improve cluster performance, compared to relying on a centralized CoreDNS instance to resolve external DNS records, as a local NodeLocalDNS instance can cache DNS results and eliminate the network latency factor.