Introduction

Domain Name System (DNS) acts as a host-name registry on the network and map host names to IP addresses.

DNS enumeration is the process of locating all the DNS serves and their corresponding records for an organisation

In this module, we will be learn more about how DNS works and how to use dig to perform some DNS enumeration attacks

Pre-requisite tools

Wireshark

https://www.wireshark.org/download.html

Wireshark is a widely-used network protocol analyser

We will be using Wireshark later to do packet sniffing to observe what goes on in our network data

dig

*For Windows users, install dig. dig is pre-installed on Kali Linux.

https://drjohnstechtalk.com/blog/2016/01/dig-for-windows/

dig is a DNS lookup utility

We will be using dig to lookup DNS records and perform a zone transfer attack

Quick Recap