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dnsenum


Information about the package, dnsenum, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dnsenum package is designed for, A tool to enumerate DNS info about domains.


Package Name:

dnsenum

Summary:

A tool to enumerate DNS info about domains

Description:

The purpose of this tool is to gather as much information as possible about a domain. The program currently gathers A, NS, MX records, performs axfr queries, gets extra names and subdomains via google scraping, bruteforces subdomains from file, calculate C class domain network ranges and perform whois queries on them, perform reverse lookups on netranges, writes ip-blocks to domain_ips.txt.

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

1.2.4.2

Release:

1.el6

Size:

24 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for dnsenum


Control the dnsenum package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install dnsenum

This command will install dnsenum on the server.

yum remove dnsenum

This command will un-install dnsenum on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnsenum, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove dnsenum

This command will un-install dnsenum on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dnsenum when using the -y flag.

yum update dnsenum

This command will update dnsenum to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dnsenum, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update dnsenum

This command will update dnsenum to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dnsenum when using the -y flag.

yum info dnsenum

This command will show you core information about the dnsenum package.

yum deplist dnsenum

This command will show you the dependencies for dnsenum. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update dnsenum

This command will check if there is an update waiting on dnsenum. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.