February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
302 pages
7h 58m
English
Dnsenum is a fast and very efficient way of acquiring the same info as nslookup without having to jump through as many hoops.
To use dnsenum at its most basic, simply issue the following at the Terminal window:
dnsenum <domain name>
This will return a list of results about records including name servers, MX servers, and A records. It will also attempt to perform a zone transfer.
Want to try querying a different DNS server for the same name? Use the following:
dnsenum -dnsserver <IP address of server> <domain name>
The use of dnsserver is particularly helpful when you are trying to query the authoritative server for a domain.
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