installation

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires

macOS

Homebrewvérifié · 100%

brew install massdns

local Homebrew formula metadata

Linux

Fedora dnfvérifié · 92%

sudo dnf install massdns

Fedora Rawhide package metadata · massdns · Source: dl.fedoraproject.org

Nixvérifié · 92%

nix profile install nixpkgs#massdns

nixpkgs package indexes · pkgs/by-name/ma/massdns/package.nix · Source: api.github.com

aperçu

Résumé du paquet

High-performance DNS stub resolver

Liens du projet

Commandes et alias

massdns

historique

Historique du projet et usages

MassDNS is a high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance. It targets use cases where users need to resolve millions or billions of names and tune resolver, output, retry, and concurrency behavior from the command line.

Historique du projet

The MassDNS repository was created in June 2016. Its README identifies Quirin Scheitle and the Technical University of Munich among the contributors and describes the tool as capable of more than 350,000 resolutions per second without special configuration.

Release history is sparse but meaningful. Version 0.3 in 2020 replaced an `ldns` dependency with a custom DNS implementation to reduce memory allocations and added NDJSON output. Version 1.0.0 in 2021 switched the project to semantic versioning, and version 1.1.0 in 2024 added resolver-list tooling, dedicated resolver support, SVCB and HTTPS record support, and several community fixes.

Historique d'adoption

MassDNS has a visible security and DNS-research audience, with several thousand GitHub stars and hundreds of forks. The supplied package metadata records Homebrew, Fedora, and Nix packages, which makes it accessible from both workstation and Linux server environments.

Its adoption is closely tied to subdomain enumeration and bulk DNS workflows. The README includes scripts for PTR resolution, subdomain brute forcing, certificate-transparency-derived names, and direct authoritative-name-server enumeration.

Modes d'utilisation

Typical usage pipes a domain list into `massdns`, chooses a resolver list with `-r`, selects a record type with `-t`, and writes output with `-w` or stdout redirection. Output modes include simple text, full text, binary, domain-list output, and NDJSON.

The README emphasizes operational caution: public resolvers may be unreliable or generate abuse complaints, and users should adjust concurrency and prefer trusted resolvers when authenticity matters.

Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

MassDNS matters to package users because it provides a fast, small DNS reconnaissance primitive that can be installed without dragging in a large framework.

For command-line security and network engineers, it is the DNS-side counterpart to other high-throughput reconnaissance tools: composable, pipe-friendly, and tuned by flags rather than a GUI.

Chronologie

2016: GitHub repository created.
2020: v0.3 release removes the `ldns` dependency and adds NDJSON output.
2021: v1.0.0 switches to semantic versioning.
2024: v1.1.0 release adds resolver tooling and SVCB/HTTPS record support.

Related projects

MassDNS includes and references subdomain enumeration workflows inspired by or compatible with tools such as subbrute.
It is commonly used alongside wordlists, certificate transparency sources, and local recursive resolvers such as Unbound.

Sources

https://api.github.com/repos/blechschmidt/massdns
https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns
https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns/releases
source_facts.package-manager-url

posture de sécurité

Niveau de risque : vert

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Classificateur de risque

risque vert · confiance faible · appliance

Pourquoi

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signaux

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Comportement d'installation

Aucun hook post-install Homebrew n’est enregistré dans les métadonnées de formule.
Les métadonnées de bottle Homebrew sont disponibles pour 10 plateformes.
Les métadonnées de compilation listent 1 dépendances de compilation.

Revue recommandée

Avant une utilisation sans surveillance par un agent, vérifiez si l'outil lit des identifiants en clair, écrit un état distant, publie des artefacts ou lance des plugins.

exécutables

Exécutables installés

Commande	Type	Exposition	Note
`massdns`	cli	exécutable global

fraîcheur

Version et fraîcheur

Ces signaux séparent l'âge de génération de la page, l'activité du gestionnaire de paquets et la comparaison avec les versions amont. Un retard de version n'est signalé que lorsqu'une URL de preuve et des versions comparables sont présentes.

page générée2026-07-25

version du gestionnaire1.1.0

gestionnaire mis à jour

données localesOK

amontà jour

dernière version détectéev1.1.0

https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns

infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.confiance faible

métadonnées d'installation

Métadonnées du paquet

Clé du paquet	brew:massdns
Version	1.1.0
Gestionnaire de paquets	Homebrew
Page du gestionnaire de paquets	https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/massdns
Page d'accueil	https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns
Dépôt	https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns
Docs amont	https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns#readme
Licence	GPL-3.0-only
Archive source	https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns/archive/refs/tags/v1.1.0.tar.gz
Dépendances de compilation	cmake
Bibliothèques fournies par macOS	libpcap
Bouteille	disponible (sur arm64_linux, arm64_monterey, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, arm64_ventura, monterey, sonoma, ventura, x86_64_linux)
post-install Homebrew	non défini
Service	aucun déclaré

faits du registre

Détails de la base source

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

correspondances dans les bases sources

Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

Les correspondances proviennent d’index externes de gestionnaires de paquets et restent séparées des liens de paquets Automic Vault locaux.

Nix95%

massdns

nix profile install nixpkgs#massdns

normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Massdns

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

dnf95%

massdns 0.3-15.fc44

High-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance

https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns

sudo dnf install massdns

License: GPL-3.0-or-later
Category: Unspecified
Architecture: x86_64
Source Package: massdns
2 Dépendances
1 fournit
normalized package name match
Correspondance par : Massdns

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

graphe de paquets

Les liens viennent du graphe local de relations entre paquets, des suppléments, des dépendances, des correspondances d'écosystèmes et de l'appartenance aux hubs.

piste source

Généré depuis les données du dépôt

Cette page est servie par av-web depuis l'artéfact SQLite privé des paquets généré par scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/massdns.yml

Sources utilisées

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

Installer massdns avec Homebrew, dnf, Nix