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dnsx

Fast, multi-purpose DNS toolkit from ProjectDiscovery.

Recon & OSINT

$ dnsx --help

dnsx

// what it is

Description

Concurrent DNS resolver and toolkit — resolves A/CNAME/MX/TXT/etc., does wildcard detection, supports the WHOLE Project Discovery pipeline.

// use cases

What people use it for

  • Bulk-resolve a list of subdomains to live IPs
  • Detect wildcard DNS that breaks naive subdomain bruteforce
  • Output JSON for downstream tooling

// commands

The commands you'll type

Resolve subdomains

$ cat subs.txt | dnsx -resp -silent

Wildcard-aware brute

$ dnsx -d target.tld -w wordlist.txt -wd target.tld

// facts

category
Recon & OSINT
platforms
LIN · WIN · MAC
license
FOSS
difficulty
Beginner

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