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
2025-12-26-1766708098-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
c4a77baa4c12cada055ef873a1a3dc8b2fbf3db2
10.1 GB Dec. 26, 2025
2025-12-26-1766707564-fdns_any.json.gz
f4fb9f3368642c5118d0d791048cb3c5e36f96a9
73.9 GB Dec. 26, 2025
2025-12-19-1766187355-fdns_caa.json.gz
f869c9f6d176c9d32518366dd0e90b6786a336ce
6.5 GB Dec. 20, 2025
2025-12-19-1766163987-fdns_cname.json.gz
5ae20c5e1035d61b68f44a1e5c08da6d54756dda
3.6 GB Dec. 20, 2025
2025-12-19-1766160548-fdns_a.json.gz
39b830b88822fdcf92169d5529d1cd49dbda490c
34.9 GB Dec. 20, 2025
2025-12-19-1766160006-fdns_mx.json.gz
0fadd08657fea07fd4f7f23c0354ca2da1f698d9
6.5 GB Dec. 20, 2025
2025-12-19-1766104382-fdns_txt.json.gz
1e05315074b4ef2c9d755f2555a49ab3830f36be
13.2 GB Dec. 19, 2025
2025-12-19-1766103834-fdns_aaaa.json.gz
5f07f3bde16d88a69f6d3609a00cc0f7ed557fa2
9.9 GB Dec. 19, 2025
2025-12-19-1766103360-fdns_ns.json.gz
05f62602444d575e1f1c8698cfcd8ff48d2d6fe0
15.7 GB Dec. 19, 2025
2025-12-19-1766103003-fdns_any.json.gz
a1f2c4eba1bb4e4dd98d6cbc0e22ab01297b2629
74.5 GB Dec. 19, 2025