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
2023-08-04-1691107745-fdns_a.json.gz
252651e8cc895869a23da2d7625433b8c000dfdd
19.2 GB Aug. 5, 2023
2023-08-04-1691107619-fdns_cname.json.gz
86dfed99f581c5abe8c2bb280016cd23cf733424
2.5 GB Aug. 4, 2023
2023-08-04-1691107531-fdns_mx.json.gz
dcf1ffea5a57f4cf66bc08ca9f3335eb762099b6
4.9 GB Aug. 4, 2023
2023-08-01-1690848422-fdns_txt_mx_mta-sts.json.gz
52c124f7beeafd19a946f48ad61f9fb4788a618a
10.8 MB Aug. 1, 2023
2023-08-01-1690848319-fdns_txt_mx_dmarc.json.gz
b49944a61adac0d406a59cafa6407c151b3bc135
29.4 MB Aug. 1, 2023
2023-07-29-1690608096-fdns_ns.json.gz
5b7fcfc93a00208fb7307c808f301aa49743d36d
8.6 GB July 29, 2023
2023-07-29-1690591122-fdns_mx.json.gz
f376042f9407c18ac46e8abbf1cb80797eda1fba
4.9 GB July 29, 2023
2023-07-28-1690560968-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
d955ebe49a207a00669f0e7e9b125a4d7bcd73f3
4.7 GB July 29, 2023
2023-07-28-1690558191-fdns_caa.json.gz
b95262fa0e6df7c3e51ca744f92a2f8af3c7de85
2.4 GB July 29, 2023
2023-07-28-1690503117-fdns_txt.json.gz
d23cacd2344e823332ab7baa4d2f28a76999126d
6.9 GB July 28, 2023