Introduction
Hellfire is a parallelised DNS resolver. It is written in Go and for the purpose of generating input lists to PATHspider, though may be useful for other applications.
Get Started
If you already have Go installed on your system, you can install hellfire with:
go get pathspider.net/hellfire/...
Basic Usage
Usage: hellfire --topsites [--file=<filename>] [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] hellfire --cisco [--file=<filename>] [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] hellfire --citizenlab [--country=<cc>|--file=<filename>] [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] hellfire --opendns [--list=<name>|--file=<filename>] [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] hellfire --csv --file=<filename> [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] hellfire --txt --file=<filename> [--output=<individual|array|oneeach>] [--type=<host|ns|mx>] [--canid=<canid address>] Options: -h --help Show this screen. --version Show version.
Input Formats
Hellfire is capable of taking its input list from a file, and also of downloading the latest version of an input list directly from the Internet. The following sources are supported:
- Alexa Top 1 Million Global Sites
- Cisco Umbrella 1 Million
- Citizen Lab Test Lists
- OpenDNS Public Domain Lists
- Comma-Seperated Values Files
- Plain Text Domain Lists
Output Format
- individual
- One record output per IP address looked up, discarding no addresses.
- array
- One record output per domain name, with an array of all addresses resolved.
- oneeach
- One record output per IP address, only printing one IPv4 and one IPv6 at most for each domain.
Source Code
The source code for Hellfire is available on GitHub under a 2-clause BSD license and developer documentation is available on GoDoc.
