How To Install dnsenum on Fedora 34

dnsenum is A tool to enumerate DNS info about domains

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.