# Kong integration with consul (its DNS interface) and dynamical routing **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Created:** [July 2, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-integration-with-consul-its-dns-interface-and-dynamical-routing/3891 "2019-07-02T14:01:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![1112](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/1112/32/1145_2.png) [@1112](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/1112)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 2:01pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-integration-with-consul-its-dns-interface-and-dynamical-routing/3891/1 "2019-07-02T14:01:31Z")
hi! My issue : I use Kong as API gateway and Consul as a service discovery. Now i have 3 same services running on different random ports (for example user-service on port 44000 , 44001,44002). As i know consul has DNS interface. I want to be able to send 3 requests to kong (for example [http://127.0.0.1:8000/user-route/{here\_name\_of\_request\_mapping\_in\_my\_controller}](http://127.0.0.1:8000/user-route/%7Bhere_name_of_request_mapping_in_my_controller%7D)) and take response from 3 different services. Can someone explain please or refer to place where i can start? Sorry if this question is stupid) i’m learning. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![hbagdi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/hbagdi/32/562_2.png) [@hbagdi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/hbagdi)\ **Post date:** [July 2, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-integration-with-consul-its-dns-interface-and-dynamical-routing/3891/2 "2019-07-02T16:21:23Z")
Helllo @1112 Welcome to Kong Nation! Please configure the `host` field of your [service](https://docs.konghq.com/1.2.x/admin-api/#service-object) object to point to the DNS name of your service in Consul and ensure Kong is using Consul for DNS resolution. ---
**Author:** ![1112](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/1112/32/1145_2.png) [@1112](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/1112)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 7:03am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-integration-with-consul-its-dns-interface-and-dynamical-routing/3891/3 "2019-07-04T07:03:26Z")
@hbagdi , Hello! thanks a lot for your quick response πŸ™πŸ™πŸ™ i’ve done it . I want to leave comment how. maybe it will be helpful for someone. 1)install and run consul 2)register services with it (i made it with simple adding consul-discovery dependency in my pom.xml) 3) open kong.conf and define dns\_resolver = 127.0.0.1:8600 ( By default, Consul will listen on 127.0.0.1:8600 for DNS queries in the `consul.` domain) 4) create Service with Admin API (host should be like {your-service-name}.service.consul). port can be any. specify path (for me it was simple β€œ/”) 5) create Route for this service (define client host (for me it was my local machine - so localhost)) and paths (i made it /ss). 6) By default Kong listens to 8000 port so i made get request to [http://127.0.01:8000/ss/loadbalance](http://127.0.01:8000/ss/loadbalance) (where /loadbalance - request mapping for my method in controller) with header β€œHost : 127.0.0.1” 7) now it use round robin load balancer p.s . I want to clarify. Just imagine that i have 100 microservices ( i think it possible) . And each of this microservices have own API with 5 methods for example. So i should use 100 calls to Admin API and set Routes and Services for each service ??? i used api gateway from spring cloud stack and i was able to route request by easily typing [http://localhost](http://localhost):(port\_of\_api\_gateway)/(name\_of\_service\_which\_i\_want\_to\_route)/(name\_of\_request\_mapping) ---
**Author:** ![hbagdi](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discuss.konghq.com/hbagdi/32/562_2.png) [@hbagdi](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/hbagdi)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2019, 12:54am UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/kong-integration-with-consul-its-dns-interface-and-dynamical-routing/3891/4 "2019-07-09T00:54:22Z")
> [@1112](#): > > So i should use 100 calls to Admin API and set Routes and Services for each service ??? Yes. It should be trivial to write a script to automate this.