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
2026-01-28-1769561860-fdns_txt.json.gz
62f22ec57e1f671a49416aa7f885842c6465ff14
14.2 GB Jan. 28, 2026
2026-01-27-1769549052-fdns_ns.json.gz
7dae08f6530ca4139c9c663b550f1433e3876fe4
16.9 GB Jan. 28, 2026
2026-01-26-1769445267-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
fdecf36ed555f8d22b628e2e6ff6181282849e54
10.8 GB Jan. 27, 2026
2026-01-25-1769315493-fdns_any.json.gz
a2ab0f412601afd4e16fc416464c91951ceb1eeb
83.1 GB Jan. 26, 2026
2026-01-17-1768624369-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
09a4f2b76f3bbd1ae8c95979b8dececb0528364a
10.7 GB Jan. 17, 2026
2026-01-16-1768586784-fdns_a.json.gz
48131864d8a04ff0a0d66e231ae22bea2bb83073
37.6 GB Jan. 17, 2026
2026-01-16-1768582542-fdns_caa.json.gz
d30547a8906e74700cc4c5fa0652edf681b1d165
6.6 GB Jan. 17, 2026
2026-01-16-1768576074-fdns_mx.json.gz
b10be56906127784137648c362e57914a237d2c5
6.8 GB Jan. 17, 2026
2026-01-16-1768523663-fdns_any.json.gz
90538f484687974188f2bc51b3b08deba6658e6c
82.5 GB Jan. 17, 2026
2026-01-16-1768523132-fdns_txt.json.gz
3e074452545a8c8085d7344622c4fe80e40788b9
14.1 GB Jan. 16, 2026