projectdiscovery/dnsxdnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple DNS queries of your choice with a list of user-supplied resolvers.
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dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running various probes through the retryabledns library. It supports multiple DNS queries, user supplied resolvers, DNS wildcard filtering like shuffledns etc.
dnsx requires go1.21 to install successfully. Run the following command to install the latest version:
go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx/cmd/dnsx@latest
dnsx -h
This will display help for the tool. Here are all the switches it supports.
INPUT:
-l, -list string list of sub(domains)/hosts to resolve (file or stdin)
-d, -domain string list of domain to bruteforce (file or comma separated or stdin)
-w, -wordlist string list of words to bruteforce (file or comma separated or stdin)
QUERY:
-a query A record (default)
-aaaa query AAAA record
-cname query CNAME record
-ns query NS record
-txt query TXT record
-srv query SRV record
-ptr query PTR record
-mx query MX record
-soa query SOA record
-any query ANY record
-axfr query AXFR
-caa query CAA record
-recon query all the dns records (a,aaaa,cname,ns,txt,srv,ptr,mx,soa,axfr,caa)
-e, -exclude-type value dns query type to exclude (a,aaaa,cname,ns,txt,srv,ptr,mx,soa,axfr,caa) (default none)
FILTER:
-re, -resp display dns response
-ro, -resp-only display dns response only
-rc, -rcode string filter result by dns status code (eg. -rcode noerror,servfail,refused)
PROBE:
-cdn display cdn name
-asn display host asn information
RATE-LIMIT:
-t, -threads int number of concurrent threads to use (default 100)
-rl, -rate-limit int number of dns request/second to make (disabled as default) (default -1)
UPDATE:
-up, -update update dnsx to latest version
-duc, -disable-update-check disable automatic dnsx update check
OUTPUT:
-o, -output string file to write output
-j, -json write output in JSONL(ines) format
-omit-raw, -or omit raw dns response from jsonl output
-ot, -output-template string custom output template (e.g. -ot '{{host}} {{a}}')
DEBUG:
-hc, -health-check run diagnostic check up
-silent display only results in the output
-v, -verbose display verbose output
-raw, -debug display raw dns response
-stats display stats of the running scan
-version display version of dnsx
-nc, -no-color disable color in output
OPTIMIZATION:
-retry int number of dns attempts to make (must be at least 1) (default 2)
-hf, -hostsfile use system host file
-trace perform dns tracing
-trace-max-recursion int Max recursion for dns trace (default 32767)
-resume resume existing scan
-stream stream mode (wordlist, wildcard, stats and stop/resume will be disabled)
-timeout value maximum time to wait for a DNS query to complete (default 3s)
CONFIGURATIONS:
-auth configure projectdiscovery cloud (pdcp) api key (default true)
-r, -resolver string list of resolvers to use (file or comma separated)
-wt, -wildcard-threshold int wildcard filter threshold (default 5)
-aw, -auto-wildcard automatically detect wildcard domains for filtering
-wd, -wildcard-domain string domain name for manual wildcard filtering (mutually exclusive with -auto-wildcard; other flags will be ignored - json output recommended)
Filter active hostnames from the list of passive subdomains, obtained from various sources:
subfinder -silent -d hackerone.com | dnsx -silent
a.ns.hackerone.com
www.hackerone.com
api.hackerone.com
docs.hackerone.com
mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com
mta-sts.hackerone.com
resources.hackerone.com
b.ns.hackerone.com
mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com
events.hackerone.com
support.hackerone.com
Print A records for the given list of subdomains:
subfinder -silent -d hackerone.com | dnsx -silent -a -resp
www.hackerone.com [104.16.100.52]
www.hackerone.com [104.16.99.52]
hackerone.com [104.16.99.52]
hackerone.com [104.16.100.52]
api.hackerone.com [104.16.99.52]
api.hackerone.com [104.16.100.52]
mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [185.199.108.153]
mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [185.199.109.153]
mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [185.199.110.153]
mta-sts.forwarding.hackerone.com [185.199.111.153]
a.ns.hackerone.com [162.159.0.31]
resources.hackerone.com [52.60.160.16]
resources.hackerone.com [3.98.63.202]
resources.hackerone.com [52.60.165.183]
resources.hackerone.com [read.uberflip.com]
mta-sts.hackerone.com [185.199.110.153]
mta-sts.hackerone.com [185.199.111.153]
mta-sts.hackerone.com [185.199.109.153]
mta-sts.hackerone.com [185.199.108.153]
gslink.hackerone.com [13.35.210.17]
gslink.hackerone.com [13.35.210.38]
gslink.hackerone.com [13.35.210.83]
gslink.hackerone.com [13.35.210.19]
b.ns.hackerone.com [162.159.1.31]
docs.hackerone.com [185.199.109.153]
docs.hackerone.com [185.199.110.153]
docs.hackerone.com [185.199.111.153]
docs.hackerone.com [185.199.108.153]
support.hackerone.com [104.16.51.111]
support.hackerone.com [104.16.53.111]
mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [185.199.108.153]
mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [185.199.109.153]
mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [185.199.110.153]
mta-sts.managed.hackerone.com [185.199.111.153]
Extract A records for the given list of subdomains:
subfinder -silent -d hackerone.com | dnsx -silent -a -resp-only