Installation

Weitere Installationsbefehle

macOS

Homebrewverifiziert · 100%

brew install dnsx

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfverifiziert · 92%

sudo dnf install dnsx

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dnsx · Quelle: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixverifiziert · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#dnsx

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/dn/dnsx/package.nix · Quelle: api.github.com

Überblick

Paketzusammenfassung

DNS query and resolution tool

Projektlinks

Befehle und Aliase

dnsx

Verlauf

Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

dnsx is ProjectDiscovery's fast DNS query and resolution CLI, built for reconnaissance pipelines and bulk probing rather than interactive DNS administration.

Its history is mainly the history of ProjectDiscovery standardizing bug-bounty and attack-surface tooling around composable Go CLIs that stream data through stdin and stdout.

Projektgeschichte

The public release line starts with v1.0.0 in November 2020, and subsequent releases kept dnsx in the ProjectDiscovery toolkit alongside tools such as subfinder, httpx, naabu, nuclei, and shuffledns.

The documentation and README frame dnsx as a retryabledns-based toolkit for multiple DNS query types, custom resolvers, brute-force resolution, and wildcard handling.

Adoptionsgeschichte

dnsx became part of the common ProjectDiscovery reconnaissance workflow: subdomain inputs from one tool can be resolved and filtered through dnsx, then passed onward to HTTP probing or vulnerability scanning tools.

Packaging in Homebrew, Fedora, Nix, and Kali reflects adoption by both developer workstations and security-testing distributions.

Wie es verwendet wird

dnsx is commonly used to resolve lists of domains, query specific DNS record types, use custom resolver pools, brute-force names, and remove wildcard DNS noise from large candidate sets.

Its stdin/stdout design makes it useful in shell pipelines and CI-style scanning jobs.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

dnsx matters less as a novel DNS protocol implementation and more as a modern packaging example: a single static-ish Go CLI designed to be chained with a security-tool ecosystem.

The package shows how DNS utilities have moved from administrator-only troubleshooting toward high-volume reconnaissance and asset inventory workflows.

Zeitleiste

2020: dnsx v1.0.0 was released as a ProjectDiscovery DNS toolkit.
2021-2023: v1.0.x and v1.1.x releases broadened the tool while it became a regular component of ProjectDiscovery reconnaissance pipelines.
2024: v1.2.0 and later releases continued the Go module and packaging lifecycle.
2025: v1.2.3 release activity shows the project still being maintained.

Related projects

ProjectDiscovery siblings include subfinder for subdomain discovery, httpx for HTTP probing, naabu for port scanning, nuclei for template-based scanning, and shuffledns for mass DNS resolution with wildcard filtering.
dnsx is also related to retryabledns, the Go library it uses for resilient DNS probing.

Quellen

Sicherheitslage

Risikostufe: grün

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risikoklassifikator

grün Risiko · niedrig Konfidenz · appliance

Warum

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signale

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Installationsverhalten

In den Formelmetadaten ist kein Homebrew-Post-install-Hook erfasst.
Homebrew-Bottle-Metadaten sind für 6 Plattformziele verfügbar.
Build-Metadaten listen 1 Build-Abhängigkeiten.

Empfohlene Prüfung

Prüfe vor unbeaufsichtigter Agent-Nutzung, ob das Tool Klartext-Credentials liest, Remote-Zustand schreibt, Artefakte veröffentlicht oder Plugins ausführt.

Executables

Installierte Executables

Befehl	Art	Sichtbarkeit	Hinweis
`dnsx`	cli	globales Executable

Aktualität

Version und Aktualität

Diese Signale trennen das Alter der Seitengenerierung, Aktivität des Paketmanagers und Upstream-Release-Vergleich. Versionsrückstand wird nur gemeldet, wenn eine Evidenz-URL und vergleichbare Versionen vorhanden sind.

Seite generiert2026-07-25

Manager-Version1.3.0

Manager aktualisiert2026-07-16

lokale DatenOK

Upstreamaktuell

neueste erkannte Versionv1.3.0

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx

OKEs wurden keine Aktualitätswarnungen generiert.

Installationsmetadaten

Paketmetadaten

Paketschlüssel	brew:dnsx
Version	1.3.0
Paketmanager	Homebrew
Paketmanager-Seite	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dnsx
Homepage	https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx
Repository	https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx
Upstream-Dokumentation	https://docs.projectdiscovery.io/opensource/dnsx/overview
Lizenz	MIT
Quellarchiv	https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx/archive/refs/tags/v1.3.0.tar.gz
Zuletzt aktualisiert	2026-07-16T18:39:02Z
Pulse	updated
Build-Abhängigkeiten	go
Bottle	verfügbar (auf arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-install	nicht definiert
Dienst	keiner deklariert

Registry-Fakten

Details aus der Quelldatenbank

Source Database	Homebrew formula API
Tap	homebrew/core
Full Name	dnsx
Version Scheme	0
Revision	0
Head Version	HEAD
Bottle Stable Root URL	https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecated	no
Disabled	no
Keg Only	no
URL Keys	head stable

Source-Datenbank-Treffer

Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

Treffer stammen aus externen Paketmanager-Indizes und bleiben von lokalen Automic-Vault-Paketlinks getrennt.

Nix95%

dnsx

nix profile install nixpkgs#dnsx

normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnsx

nixpkgs package indexes · api.github.com · nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dn/dnsx/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

dnf95%

dnsx 1.2.2-6.fc44

Dnsx is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit

https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx

sudo dnf install dnsx

License: 0BSD AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-3-Clause AND ICU AND ISC AND MIT AND MPL-2.0 AND Unlicense
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: dnsx
3 Abhängigkeiten
2 stellt bereit
normalized package name match
Abgeglichen nach: Dnsx

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · dl.fedoraproject.org · Fedora Rawhide package metadata: dnsx from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/e5ca8ce900cd68f5419e1c39ae517343100b306336cbaeb70a3c153121d95094-primary.xml.zst

Paketgraph

Links stammen aus dem lokalen Paketbeziehungsgraph, Ergänzungen, Abhängigkeitskanten, Ecosystem-Matches und Paket-Hub-Mitgliedschaft.

Quellspur

Aus Repository-Daten generiert

Diese Seite wird von av-web aus dem privaten Paket-SQLite-Artefakt bereitgestellt, das scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py erstellt.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/dnsx.yml

Verwendete Quellen

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
curated package history
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

dnsx mit Homebrew, dnf, Nix installieren