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dnsx

Perform multiple dns queries
This package contains a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple probes using retryabledns library, that allows you to perform multiple DNS queries of your choice with a list of user supplied resolvers, additionally supports DNS wildcard filtering like shuffledns (https://github.com/projectdiscovery/shuffledns).

Features

  • Simple and Handy utility to query DNS records
  • Supports A, AAAA, CNAME, PTR, NS, MX, TXT, SOA
  • Supports DNS Status Code probing
  • Supports DNS Tracing
  • Handles wildcard subdomains in automated way.
  • Stdin and stdout support to work with other tools.

Installed size: 30.50 MB
How to install: sudo apt install dnsx

Dependencies:
  • libc6
dnsx
root@kali:~# dnsx -h
dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit allow to run multiple probes using retryabledns library.

Usage:
  dnsx [flags]

Flags:
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
   -all, -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)
   -rtf, -response-type-filter string  return entries with no records for the specified query types (e.g., a, cname)

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 255)
   -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 Platform (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)
   -proxy string                 proxy to use (eg socks5://127.0.0.1:8080)




Updated on: 2026-Mar-02