The Powerful DNS analysis tool dnsdict6

Hi guys, I'm gonna introduce a powerful Domain Name Server(DNS) analysis tool for you. It is useful to find the information on domains,sub domains,ip address,etc. To follow these all guidelines, I recommend you to use a linux distribution
   
       The tool dnsdict6 is compatible with linux debian versions like Ubuntu, Redhat Linux,Centos, Scientific Linux,etc...  Before talking about the tool, I'll tell you some simple concepts, like what is a domain,subdomain, dns server,ipaddress,etc

What is domain and subdomain

Wikipedia defines a domain name as " A domain name is an identification string that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control on the Internet." 

   Simply talking, domain name is a pointer to a remote server, that is the domain points to a remote computer's storage area(Webserver). 

   Subdomain is a domain under a domain

eg:mail.google.com

Domain example

eg: google.com 

           is a domain name. While we are typing google.com in a browser's address bar, do you know what's happening?

DNS Server

The browser sends a request to a dns server. DNS server contains a list of domain names (say google.com,facebook.com,texperia.com) and their ip address. The domain name get resolved into ip address and the browser gets redirected to the ip address. As I said earlier, the ip address indicates a web hosting space on a remote computer. 

    

dnsdict6 tool

Now, we can discuss the tool dnsdict6 

Syntax: dnsdict6 [-d46] [-s|-m|-l|-x] [-t THREADS] [-D] domain [dictionary-file]

It Enumerates a domain for DNS entries, it uses a dictionary file if supplied
or a built-in list otherwise. This tool is based on dnsmap by gnucitizen.org.

Options:

 -4      also dump IPv4 addresses

 -t NO   specify the number of threads to use (default: 8, max: 32).

 -D      dump the selected built-in wordlist, no scanning.

 -d      display IPv6 information on NS and MX DNS domain information.

 -S      perform SRV service name guessing

 -[smlx] choose the dictionary size by -s(mall=50), -m(edium=796) (DEFAULT)
           -l(arge=1416), or -x(treme=3211)

How to use dnsdict6? An example..

The dnsdict6 tool can be used for both ipv4 information gathering as well as ipv6 information gathering. Default configuration of dnsdict6 is for ipv6

To include ipv4, use the option -4 along with the command dnsdict6.

Hope you got this. Thank you :)