dnsx – A Comprehensive DNS Toolkit For Advanced Network Probing

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.

Features

• Simple and Handy utility to query DNS records.
• A, AAAA, CNAME, PTR, NS, MX, TXT, SRV, SOA query support
• DNS Resolution / Brute-force support
• Custom resolver input support
• Multiple resolver format (TCP/UDP/DOH/DOT) support
• stdin and stdout support
• Automatic wildcard handling support

Installation Instructions

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

Usage

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

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)

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)
   -wd, -wildcard-domain string  domain name for wildcard filtering (other flags will be ignored - only json output is supported)

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