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axfr-tools
Python2016–2025
stryngs / axfr-tools

axfr-tools

The Zonefile Transfer Toolkit

2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
28GitHub stars
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What it is

The Zonefile Transfer Toolkit

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-03-14 13:51:29 UTC to 2025-01-09 09:36:55 UTC.

012016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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stryngs42·Jan 9, 2025Submission

DNS and Why AXFRs Matter

Alright, this will likely crash cause I'm cheap but I've created a thing. If enough people find interest I'll scale up the specs. Still trying to get the guest password concept to work but Kibana is fighting and so I've given up for the time being on anony access. Either way the username is "guest" and the password is "password". You can have some fun here at https://attribution.run:5601. Tonights upload is a decade's worth of research on DNS. More indices will be created and the data is, something else. For guest purposes I'll be restricting the usage of .mil or .gov searches on the resource records but knowing whether or not a given domain was scanned will not be hidden from the public view. For those wishing to research .mil or .gov a signup concept will be created and more information on how to access this kind of data will be
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passed along. The data was gathered using https://github.com/stryngs/axfr-tools and much development has taken place in the last few weeks in terms of taking a very old project and updating it. For those who might ask the question why does this matter I would offer to you https://zonetransfer.me, DigiNinja explains it best. As of tonight over 1.5 million datapoints have been uploaded. Login and have fun. DNS is fun. Email has not been created yet but once it is support@attribution.run is how to contact and request additional access.
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