# Installer massdns avec Homebrew, dnf, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de massdns pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:massdns
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install massdns
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install massdns
```

  Preuve: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: massdns from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#massdns
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/massdns/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:massdns
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.1.0
- **Résumé source:** High-performance DNS stub resolver
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns>
- **Généré:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## exécutables

- massdns (alias)

## Comportement d'installation

- Bouteille: non disponible

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-08-03
- version du gestionnaire: 1.1.0
## Historique du projet et usages

MassDNS is a high-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance. It targets use cases where users need to resolve millions or billions of names and tune resolver, output, retry, and concurrency behavior from the command line.

### Historique du projet

The MassDNS repository was created in June 2016. Its README identifies Quirin Scheitle and the Technical University of Munich among the contributors and describes the tool as capable of more than 350,000 resolutions per second without special configuration.

Release history is sparse but meaningful. Version 0.3 in 2020 replaced an `ldns` dependency with a custom DNS implementation to reduce memory allocations and added NDJSON output. Version 1.0.0 in 2021 switched the project to semantic versioning, and version 1.1.0 in 2024 added resolver-list tooling, dedicated resolver support, SVCB and HTTPS record support, and several community fixes.

### Historique d'adoption

MassDNS has a visible security and DNS-research audience, with several thousand GitHub stars and hundreds of forks. The supplied package metadata records Homebrew, Fedora, and Nix packages, which makes it accessible from both workstation and Linux server environments.

Its adoption is closely tied to subdomain enumeration and bulk DNS workflows. The README includes scripts for PTR resolution, subdomain brute forcing, certificate-transparency-derived names, and direct authoritative-name-server enumeration.

### Modes d'utilisation

Typical usage pipes a domain list into `massdns`, chooses a resolver list with `-r`, selects a record type with `-t`, and writes output with `-w` or stdout redirection. Output modes include simple text, full text, binary, domain-list output, and NDJSON.

The README emphasizes operational caution: public resolvers may be unreliable or generate abuse complaints, and users should adjust concurrency and prefer trusted resolvers when authenticity matters.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

MassDNS matters to package users because it provides a fast, small DNS reconnaissance primitive that can be installed without dragging in a large framework.

For command-line security and network engineers, it is the DNS-side counterpart to other high-throughput reconnaissance tools: composable, pipe-friendly, and tuned by flags rather than a GUI.

### Chronologie

- 2016: GitHub repository created.
- 2020: v0.3 release removes the `ldns` dependency and adds NDJSON output.
- 2021: v1.0.0 switches to semantic versioning.
- 2024: v1.1.0 release adds resolver tooling and SVCB/HTTPS record support.

### Related projects

- MassDNS includes and references subdomain enumeration workflows inspired by or compatible with tools such as subbrute.
- It is commonly used alongside wordlists, certificate transparency sources, and local recursive resolvers such as Unbound.

### Sources

- <https://api.github.com/repos/blechschmidt/massdns>
- <https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns>
- <https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager-url


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - massdns: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/ma/massdns/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- dnf - massdns - 0.3-16.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: massdns from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | High-performance DNS stub resolver for bulk lookups and reconnaissance | https://github.com/blechschmidt/massdns


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/massdns.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/massdns.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph