DNSrecon – DNS Reconnaissance for Pentesting
Overview
The first stage of penetration testing is reconnaissance (information gathering). One method of reconnaissance is by gathering the target's DNS information, such as DNS records and DNS servers.
This information can be used to piece together the network infrastructure of an organization. Additionally, it does not trigger an alert from the organisation's firewall or IDS/IPS.
A tool that helps us accomplish this is DNSrecon. As the name implies, DNSrecon is a DNS reconnaissance tool that can extract DNS-related information from a website/domain.
Here is a list of its features (according to the source repository):
Check all NS Records for Zone Transfers.
Enumerate General DNS Records for a given Domain (MX, SOA, NS, A, AAAA, SPF and TXT).
Perform common S...