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# dnsx is A fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running DNS queries
- URL: https://darkwebinformer.com/dnsx-is-a-fast-and-multi-purpose-dns-toolkit-designed-for-running-dns-queries/
- Published: 2024-07-24T17:22:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-04T22:28:23.000Z
- Author: Dark Web Informer
- Tags: OSINT

**dnsx** is a fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running various probes through the [retryabledns](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/retryabledns) library. It supports multiple DNS queries, user supplied resolvers, DNS wildcard filtering like [shuffledns](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/shuffledns) etc.

It has some of the following features:

- Simple and Handy utility to query DNS records.
- **A, AAAA, CNAME, PTR, NS, MX, TXT, SRV, SOA** query support
- DNS **Resolution** / **Brute-force** support
- Custom **resolver** input support
- Multiple resolver format **(TCP/UDP/DOH/DOT)** support
- **stdin** and **stdout** support
- Automatic **wildcard** handling support

Link: <https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx>