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 necessary. 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
2025-10-24-1761264837-fdns_any.json.gz
5a225f60b21d9f2ce7e5c686b6c36f382a2cc5ba
74.3 GB Oct. 25, 2025
2025-10-24-1761264324-fdns_ns.json.gz
a2b69c3ea7a80d4391f341ab4f2c18a25430b2c6
13.0 GB Oct. 24, 2025
2025-10-18-1760753220-fdns_caa.json.gz
64803d79df96d349608c0f6f6c543fe17973fc24
4.4 GB Oct. 18, 2025
2025-10-17-1760726146-fdns_ns.json.gz
a12e2f7f08df0c88676ee4e3eb889fd1749f0ee6
11.5 GB Oct. 18, 2025
2025-10-17-1760713132-fdns_txt.json.gz
8421f104cadc1fd30a68c57ffeaed83182bd4de2
10.0 GB Oct. 18, 2025
2025-10-17-1760709828-fdns_cname.json.gz
ad421f36cb2138af359e417d671b4ca2692b529d
3.2 GB Oct. 18, 2025
2025-10-17-1760661127-fdns_mx.json.gz
a0ea4649ee7a2bbf68b80ce63bdc566959b1f2c5
6.0 GB Oct. 17, 2025
2025-10-17-1760660573-fdns_a.json.gz
e1df45978f609cd13e8d274991fa97d9c1eac13b
30.5 GB Oct. 17, 2025
2025-10-17-1760660038-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
1ce36cc67bfe972dc5be742892a9104ec5287d11
8.7 GB Oct. 17, 2025
2025-10-17-1760659522-fdns_any.json.gz
9ff6927c2c3ae8463e2556f615b02a68e7cc3ae7
73.6 GB Oct. 18, 2025