How to use dnsenum in Kali Linux

DNSenum – This tool is programmed by perl. DNSenum is a tool that it was designed with the purpose of enumerating DNS information about a domain. We can get information by using dnsenum tool –

Get the host's addresse
Get the namservers
Get the MX record
Trying Zone Transfers
BIND Version
Get extra names and subdomains via google scraping
Brute force subdomains from file, can also perform recursion on subdomain that have NS records
Perform reverse lookups on netranges
Write to domain_ips.txt file ip-blocks

1. How to open Dnsenum

a. GUI method – Application → information Gathering → DNS Analysis → dnsenum

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b. open terminal type dnsenum and hit enter kindly read all commands. This will make you more smart geeky.

2. In terminal type dnsenum domain and hit enter for ex- dnsenum facebook.com after pressing enter you will see all the information like Host’s Address, Name servers, MX , Zone transfer etc.

Note – do not add www. With domain

3. Extra names and subdomains via google scraping – most of time this is not working with all domains. Open Terminal and type dnsenum -p 5 -s 20 domain
Ex - dnsenum -p 5 -s 20 facebook.com
Here -

-p = pages <value>

The number of google search pages to process when scraping names, the default is 20 pages, the -s switch must be specified.

-s = scrap <value>

The maximum number of subdomains that will be scraped from google.