DNS Zone Walking 🌐 aka. Yellow Pages – Zone Transfers for Roots and TLDs

Topics: dns dns-zone-files zonewalk

This is a PROOF OF CONCEPT using BASH, AWK, SED and dig(1) only

• DNS root zone
• Root name server
• Top-level domain
• DNS zone transfer
• List of Internet top-level domains
• Country code top-level domain

Setup

git clone https://github.com/1nn3/yellow-pages ~/yellow-pages

Creates the ./tlds.txt file and the ./zonefiles directory:

cd ~/yellow-pages
time ./start-zonewalk # or ./zone-transfer <tld> [name server]
./list-domains ./zonefiles/*<tld>.*.txt* # | ./rm-dot | examples/get-html-title

See also the original Project

• github.com/flotwig/TLDR-2
• github.com/flotwig/zone-walks