85  massdns(1) - Kailash Tool Reference

85.1 massdns

massdns - Resolves large amounts of domain names.

Layer CLASSIC
Category c-01-information-gathering
Safety class safe
Licence GPL-3.0-only
Upstream github.com/blechschmidt/massdns

85.1.1 NAME

massdns - Resolves large amounts of domain names.

85.1.2 SYNOPSIS & usage

Derived from the upstream README at generation time; verify against --help where the tool is installed.

$ ./bin/massdns -r lists/resolvers.txt -t AAAA domains.txt > results.txt
$ ./bin/massdns -r lists/resolvers.txt -t AAAA -w results.txt domains.txt

85.1.3 DESCRIPTION (upstream)

MassDNS is a simple high-performance DNS stub resolver targeting those who seek to resolve a massive amount of domain names in the order of millions or even billions. Without special configuration, MassDNS is capable of resolving over 350,000 names per second using publicly available resolvers. * Quirin Scheitle, Technical University of Munich Clone the git repository and cd into the project root folder. Then run make to build from source. If you are not on Linux, run make nolinux. On Windows, the Cygwin packages gcc-core, git and make are required. Usage: ./bin/massdns [options] [

85.1.4 SEE ALSO

ref: pin - verified 2026-10-14