# Install dnsmap with Homebrew, apt, dnf, Nix

Passive DNS network mapper (a.k.a. subdomains bruteforcer). Version 0.36 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install dnsmap.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:dnsmap
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install dnsmap
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install dnsmap
```

  Evidence: Debian stable package indexes: dnsmap from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install dnsmap
```

  Evidence: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: dnsmap 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#dnsmap
```

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

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:dnsmap
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 0.36
- **Source summary:** Passive DNS network mapper (a.k.a. subdomains bruteforcer)
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- dnsmap (alias)
- dnsmap-bulk (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 0.36
## Project history and usage

dnsmap is a command-line DNS network mapper and subdomain brute-forcer. It is part of the older web-application reconnaissance tradition where small C tools enumerated likely hostnames from wordlists.

### Project history

The maintained GitHub repository identifies dnsmap as a resurrected open-source project and preserves the classic dnsmap and dnsmap-bulk tools. Its README describes the utility as a passive DNS network mapper, also known as a subdomains brute-forcer.

dnsmap predates the wave of Go and Python recon frameworks; its appeal was that it was small, scriptable, and close to the Unix style of running a focused tool against a domain and capturing the output.

### Adoption history

dnsmap has stronger package-manager persistence than many small recon tools. It appears in Homebrew, Debian and Ubuntu, Fedora/DNF, and Nix, which suggests a long tail of security-training, lab, and audit usage even after newer enumeration tools appeared.

### How it is used

Users run dnsmap against a target domain with a wordlist to discover hostnames that resolve. dnsmap-bulk extends that workflow to multiple domains, making the package useful in older penetration-testing scripts and quick DNS inventory passes.

### Why package nerds care

dnsmap matters as a preserved recon artifact: package managers keep a small, older DNS brute-forcer installable because it is easy to audit, easy to script, and still teaches the shape of subdomain-enumeration workflows.

### Timeline

- 2000s: dnsmap circulates as a compact DNS mapping and subdomain brute-force utility.
- 2010s: Linux security distributions and general-purpose package managers continue carrying dnsmap.
- 2020s: The resurrecting-open-source-projects repository keeps the source available for modern packaging.

### Related projects

- Related tools include dnsgen for candidate generation, massdns and other high-speed resolvers for checking large candidate sets, and broader reconnaissance frameworks that automate subdomain discovery.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap>
- <https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap#readme>
- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/dnsmap>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Debian apt - dnsmap - 0.36-4: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: dnsmap from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | DNS domain name brute forcing tool | https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap
- Nix - dnsmap: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/dn/dnsmap/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - dnsmap - 0.36-3: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: dnsmap from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | DNS domain name brute forcing tool | https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap
- dnf - dnsmap - 0.36-9.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: dnsmap from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Sub-domains bruteforcer | https://github.com/resurrecting-open-source-projects/dnsmap


## Combined YAML source

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