Finding out the subdomains of a domain

Thu, Apr 2, 2009

Misc

1. First off you need to get a program called dig
for debian based Operating systems you can do

apt-get install dnsutils

a windows version can be downloaded from here

2. Find out the name servers of the domain this can be done by typing

dig ns <domain>

3. Now you query the Nameserver to output the subdomains

dig @<nameserver> <domain> axfr

4. You should now have a listing of all the subdomains :)

Example:

root@duffys-place:~# dig ns duffys-place.co.cc

; < <>> DiG 9.5.1-P1 < <>> ns duffys-place.co.cc
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER< <- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 48938
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;duffys-place.co.cc.            IN      NS

;; ANSWER SECTION:
duffys-place.co.cc.     43180   IN      NS      ns3.co.cc.

;; Query time: 23 msec
;; SERVER: 212.113.0.3#53(212.113.0.3)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr  2 13:12:59 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 54

root@duffys-place:~# dig @ns3.co.cc duffys-place.co.cc axfr

; <<>> DiG 9.5.1-P1 < <>> @ns3.co.cc duffys-place.co.cc axfr
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
duffys-place.co.cc.     86400   IN      SOA     ns.duffys-place.co.cc. root.duffys-place.ns.co.cc. 2009030300 28800 7200 604800 3600
duffys-place.co.cc.     86400   IN      NS      ns3.co.cc.
duffys-place.co.cc.     86400   IN      A       88.151.87.96
duffys-place.co.cc.     86400   IN      MX      10 mail1.duffys-place.co.cc.
files.duffys-place.co.cc. 3600  IN      CNAME   cid-d037be1f66fbe46e.skydrive.live.com.
home.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400  IN      A       88.151.87.116
mail.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400  IN      CNAME   ghs.google.com.
mail1.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400 IN      CNAME   aspmx.l.google.com.
paste.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400 IN      CNAME   duffys-place.co.cc.
shane.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400 IN      CNAME   duffys-place.co.cc.
sms.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400   IN      CNAME   duffys-place.co.cc.
usermin.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400 IN    A       88.151.87.98
webmin.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400 IN     A       88.151.87.97
www.duffys-place.co.cc. 86400   IN      CNAME   duffys-place.co.cc.
duffys-place.co.cc.     86400   IN      SOA     ns.duffys-place.co.cc. root.duffys-place.ns.co.cc. 2009030300 28800 7200 604800 3600
;; Query time: 308 msec
;; SERVER: 118.219.232.169#53(118.219.232.169)
;; WHEN: Thu Apr  2 13:13:06 2009
;; XFR size: 15 records (messages 1, bytes 442)

Please Note This Will Only Work On Some Nameservers

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