How To Install dnsenum on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsenum
on Fedora 34.
What is dnsenum
The purpose of this tool is to gather as much information as possible about a domain. The program currently gathers A, NS, MX records, performs axfr queries, gets extra names and subdomains via google scraping, bruteforces subdomains from file, calculate C class domain network ranges and perform whois queries on them, perform reverse lookups on netranges, writes ip-blocks to domain_ips.txt.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dnsenum
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dnsenum.
Install dnsenum on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsenum
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dnsenum
Install dnsenum on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dnsenum
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dnsenum
How To Uninstall dnsenum on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dnsenum
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dnsenum
dnsenum Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/dnsenum
/usr/share/doc/dnsenum
/usr/share/doc/dnsenum/README.md
/usr/share/doc/dnsenum/dns.txt
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dnsenum
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.