DNS 'ANY', 'A', 'AAAA', 'TXT', 'MX', and 'CNAME' responses for known forward DNS names

Study Details

Study

Forward DNS (FDNS)

Author

Project Sonar | Rapid7

Contact

Rapid7 Labs

Dataset Details

This dataset contains the responses to DNS requests for all forward DNS names known by Rapid7's Project Sonar. Until early November 2017, all of these were for the 'ANY' record with a fallback A and AAAA request if neccessary. After that, the ANY study represents only the responses to ANY requests, and dedicated studies were created for the A, AAAA, CNAME and TXT record lookups with appropriately named files. The file is a GZIP compressed file containing the name, type, value and timestamp of any returned records for a given name in JSON format.

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File Name SHA1-Fingerprint Size Updated At
2025-11-08-1762564088-fdns_txt.json.gz
f4b845f13957efea937a0d6c8448e1e3c9ade85f
12.2 GB Nov. 8, 2025
2025-11-07-1762545546-fdns_mx.json.gz
2dfe9f584c7a2d4d1d25e06609e7eae0b2bccaae
6.4 GB Nov. 8, 2025
2025-11-07-1762533222-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
f22ee280b3f0117e204c5f8cb93a7829a99bf2ab
9.2 GB Nov. 8, 2025
2025-11-07-1762526457-fdns_cname.json.gz
eb56f2d8428f8ffeac7b78da921412a78ab49a75
3.4 GB Nov. 8, 2025
2025-11-07-1762475595-fdns_caa.json.gz
57085d285cc09ae6a9c2dad366b6c48601dd9fa3
5.6 GB Nov. 7, 2025
2025-11-07-1762475007-fdns_a.json.gz
3b9ac77d65dae11c2d6bffed02b6752a422a5697
32.4 GB Nov. 7, 2025
2025-11-07-1762474515-fdns_any.json.gz
4907f5a6aea785281c2458cbbc2ce7960aea5b7c
71.8 GB Nov. 7, 2025
2025-11-07-1762473945-fdns_ns.json.gz
074c0beae5d6d342c916bc462f453c952a86c30f
14.1 GB Nov. 7, 2025
2025-11-01-1761989805-fdns_cname.json.gz
8fd8f52e7949617f79384fe1d6de569b7f5f6081
3.4 GB Nov. 1, 2025
2025-11-01-1761960967-fdns_txt_mx_mta-sts.json.gz
5fa5e475578d086d6c5109079884e85bad0b0fa9
18.9 MB Nov. 1, 2025