
Engineer's DNS Intelligence Report
| Parameter | Current | Suggested | Severity | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| timeout_seconds | 5s |
8s |
low | Average scan duration is 31.9s, suggesting DNS responses are slow for this domain. Increasing timeout from 5s to 8s prevents premature resolution failures. RFC 8767 |
Email Security Methodology Can this domain be impersonated by email? No
SPF Record RFC 7208 §4 Verified
SPF valid with industry-standard soft fail (~all), 8/10 lookups
DMARC Policy RFC 7489 §6.3 Verified
DMARC policy reject (100%) - excellent protection
pct= with t= (testing flag), add np= (non-existent subdomain policy), and mandate DNS tree walk for policy discovery instead of the Public Suffix List.DKIM Records RFC 6376 §3.6 Verified
Found 8 DKIM selector(s) with weak key(s) (1024-bit)
l= tag body length vulnerability (attacker appends unsigned content to signed mail),
weak key exploitation (keys below 1024-bit are cryptographically breakable per RFC 6376 §3.3.3),
DKIM replay attacks (re-sending legitimately signed messages at scale)
MTA-STS RFC 8461 §3 Verified
No MTA-STS record found
MTA-STS policy enforcement is evaluated in Mail Transport Security below.
TLS-RPT RFC 8460 §3 Verified
No TLS-RPT record found
DANE / TLSA Verified Recon Methodology Can mail servers establish identity without a public CA? No
DANE not available — Google Workspace does not support inbound DANE/TLSA on its MX infrastructure
Google uses shared, multi-tenant MX infrastructure (aspmx.l.google.com) with certificate rotation. Google does not publish TLSA records for its MX hosts and does not allow customers to do so. Google also does not validate DANE/TLSA when sending outbound mail.
Recommended alternative: MTA-STS
Two mechanisms protect email in transit. DANE is the primary standard; MTA-STS is the alternative for domains that cannot deploy DNSSEC:
- DNSSEC + DANE (RFC 7672) — Cryptographic chain of trust from DNS root to mail server certificate. Eliminates reliance on certificate authorities. No trust-on-first-use weakness. Requires DNSSEC.
- MTA-STS (RFC 8461) — HTTPS-based policy requiring TLS for mail delivery. Works without DNSSEC but relies on CA trust and is vulnerable on first use (§10). Created for domains where “deploying DNSSEC is undesirable or impractical” (§2).
Industry trend: Microsoft Exchange Online enforces inbound DANE with DNSSEC (GA October 2024), and providers like Proton Mail and Fastmail also support DANE. Google Workspace does not support DANE and relies on MTA-STS. Both mechanisms coexist because DANE is backward-compatible — senders skip the check if the domain isn't DNSSEC-signed (RFC 7672 §1.3).
Brand Security Can this brand be convincingly faked?
BIMI BIMI Spec Verified Warning
No BIMI record found
CAA RFC 8659 §4 Verified Success
CAA configured - only Sectigo, GlobalSign, Let's Encrypt, DigiCert can issue certificates (including wildcards)
Domain Security Methodology Can DNS responses be tampered with in transit?
DNSSEC RFC 4033 §2 Verified Unsigned
DNSSEC not configured - DNS responses are unsigned
NS Delegation Verified
8 nameserver(s) configured
Traffic & Routing Where does this domain's traffic actually terminate?
AIPv4 Address
AAAAIPv6 Address
MXMail Servers
SRVServices
Subdomain Discovery RFC 6962 Recon LIVE What subdomains and infrastructure are exposed in certificate logs? Unavailable
How did we find these?Passive discovery using Certificate Transparency Logs — publicly auditable records of every TLS certificate ever issued. CT log service was slow or unavailable — showing DNS-probed subdomains only
DNS Evidence Diff Side-by-side comparison
140.82.112.4
0 issuewild "sectigo.com"
0 issue "sectigo.com"
0 issue "globalsign.com"
0 issue "letsencrypt.org"
0 issuewild "letsencrypt.org"
0 issuewild "digicert.com"
0 issue "digicert.com"
v=DMARC1; p=reject; pct=100; rua=mailto:dmarc@github.com
10 alt4.aspmx.l.google.com.
10 alt3.aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
1 aspmx.l.google.com.
5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
dns1.p08.nsone.net.
ns-1283.awsdns-32.org.
ns-520.awsdns-01.net.
ns-1707.awsdns-21.co.uk.
dns4.p08.nsone.net.
dns2.p08.nsone.net.
dns3.p08.nsone.net.
ns-421.awsdns-52.com.
dns1.p08.nsone.net. hostmaster.nsone.net. 1656468023 43200 7200 1209600 3600
TAILSCALE-xOzoDvFUzZr5YYVCQFuD
facebook-domain-verification=39xu4jzl7roi7x0n93ldkxjiaarx50
v=spf1 ip4:192.30.252.0/22 include:_netblocks.google.com include:_netblocks2.google.com include:_netblocks3.google.com include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:mail.zendesk.com include:_spf.salesforce.com include:servers.mcsv.net include:mktomail.com ip4:62.253.227.114 ip4:166.78.69.169 ip4:166.78.69.170 ip4:166.78.71.131 ip4:167.89.101.2 ip4:167.89.101.192/28 ip4:192.254.112.60 ip4:192.254.112.98/31 ip4:192.254.113.10 ip4:192.254.113.101 ip4:192.254.114.176 ~all
calendly-site-verification=at0DQARi7IZvJtXQAWhMqpmIzpvoBNF7aam5VKKxP
docusign=087098e3-3d46-47b7-9b4e-8a23028154cd
atlassian-domain-verification=jjgw98AKv2aeoYFxiL/VFaoyPkn3undEssTRuMg6C/3Fp/iqhkV4HVV7WjYlVeF8
MS=6BF03E6AF5CB689E315FB6199603BABF2C88D805
adobe-idp-site-verification=b92c9e999aef825edc36e0a3d847d2dbad5b2fc0e05c79ddd7a16139b48ecf4b
shopify-verification-code=t1YPwcmvnxZyBycaCpk1MPyWoFs72o
jamf-site-verification=XtaPNIYghF_e_xRDI8CjgQ
MS=ms44452932
MS=ms58704441
google-site-verification=UTM-3akMgubp6tQtgEuAkYNYLyYAvpTnnSrDMWoDR3o
loom-site-verification=f3787154f1154b7880e720a511ea664d
stripe-verification=f88ef17321660a01bab1660454192e014defa29ba7b8de9633c69d6b4912217f
krisp-domain-verification=ZlyiK7XLhnaoUQb2hpak1PLY7dFkl1WE
apple-domain-verification=RyQhdzTl6Z6x8ZP4
google-site-verification=82Le34Flgtd15ojYhHlGF_6g72muSjamlMVThBOJpks
miro-verification=d2e174fdb00c71e0bcf58f8e58c3da2dd80dcfa9
DNS History Timeline BETA
When was a record added, removed, or changed — and could that change be the problem?
Confirm Your Email Configuration
This tool analyzes DNS records, but to verify actual email delivery, send a test email to Red Sift Investigate. Their tool shows exactly how your emails arrive, including SPF/DKIM/DMARC pass/fail results in the headers.
DATA FRESHNESS & METHODOLOGY
All security-critical records (SPF, DMARC, DKIM, DANE/TLSA, DNSSEC, MTA-STS, TLS-RPT, BIMI, CAA) are queried live from authoritative nameservers and cross-referenced against 5 independent public DNS resolvers (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, DNS4EU) at the time of each analysis. No security verdict uses cached data.
Registrar data (RDAP) is cached for up to 24 hours because domain ownership and registration details change infrequently. Certificate Transparency logs (subdomain discovery via RFC 6962) are cached for 1 hour because CT entries are append-only historical records. Sections using cached data are marked with a CACHED badge; live queries show LIVE.
Intelligence Sources
This analysis used 4 DNS resolvers (consensus), reverse DNS (PTR), Team Cymru (ASN attribution), IANA RDAP (registrar), crt.sh (CT logs), and SMTP probing (transport). All using open-standard protocols.
Verify Report Integrity SHA-3-512 Has this report been altered since generation? Verify below
This cryptographic hash seals the analysis data, domain, timestamp, and tool version into a tamper-evident fingerprint. Any modification to the report data will produce a different hash. This is distinct from the posture hash (used for drift detection) — the integrity hash uniquely identifies this specific report instance.
52361aaadab8f8a41150a136d69445f2e1976a183f3529dd008587aa0066cd9af5f7a9f0889afce58017c7d1134f010f43f4777b8e27f2b2272f41b68fc3cfdc
Download the intelligence dump and verify its integrity, like you would a Kali ISO or any critical artifact. The SHA-3-512 checksum covers every byte of the download — deterministic serialization ensures identical hashes across downloads.
After downloading, verify with any of these commands:
Tip: cd ~/Downloads first (or wherever you saved the files).
cat dns-intelligence-github.com.json.sha3 && echo '---' && openssl dgst -sha3-512 dns-intelligence-github.com.json
python3 -c "import hashlib; print(hashlib.sha3_512(open('dns-intelligence-github.com.json','rb').read()).hexdigest())"
sha3sum -a 512 dns-intelligence-github.com.json
.sha3 file or the checksum API at /api/analysis/456/checksum. Hash algorithm: SHA-3-512 (Keccak, NIST FIPS 202).
Every finding in this report is backed by DNS queries you can run yourself. These vetted one-liners reproduce the exact checks used to build this report for github.com. Our analysis adds multi-resolver consensus, RFC-based evaluation, and cross-referencing — but the underlying data is always independently verifiable. We are intelligence analysts, not gatekeepers.
DNS Records
dig +noall +answer github.com A
dig +noall +answer github.com AAAA
dig +noall +answer github.com MX
dig +noall +answer github.com NS
dig +noall +answer github.com TXT
Email Authentication
dig +short github.com TXT | grep -i spf
dig +short _dmarc.github.com TXT
dig +short cm._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short google._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short k1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short k2._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short s1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short s2._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short zendesk1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short zendesk2._domainkey.github.com TXT
Domain Security
dig +dnssec +noall +answer github.com DNSKEY
dig +noall +answer github.com DS
dig +dnssec +cd github.com A @1.1.1.1
Transport Security
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt4.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt3.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt2.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt1.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect alt4.aspmx.l.google.com:25 -servername alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -subject -dates
dig +short _mta-sts.github.com TXT
curl -sL https://mta-sts.github.com/.well-known/mta-sts.txt
dig +short _smtp._tls.github.com TXT
Brand & Trust
dig +short default._bimi.github.com TXT
dig +noall +answer github.com CAA
DNS Records
dig +noall +answer github.com HTTPS
Domain Security
dig +noall +answer github.com CDS
Infrastructure Intelligence
curl -sL 'https://rdap.org/domain/github.com' | python3 -m json.tool | head -50
Transport Security
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect alt4.aspmx.l.google.com:25 -servername alt4.aspmx.l.google.com </dev/null 2>/dev/null | head -5
Infrastructure Intelligence
curl -s 'https://crt.sh/?q=%25.github.com&output=json' | python3 -c "import json,sys; [print(e['name_value']) for e in json.load(sys.stdin)]" | sort -u | head -20
curl -sL https://github.com/.well-known/security.txt | head -20
AI Surface
curl -sI https://github.com/llms.txt | head -5
curl -s https://github.com/robots.txt | grep -i -E 'GPTBot|ChatGPT|Claude|Anthropic|Google-Extended|CCBot|PerplexityBot'
Infrastructure Intelligence
dig +short 4.112.82.140.origin.asn.cymru.com TXT
dig, openssl, and curl — standard tools available on macOS, Linux, and WSL. Results may vary slightly due to DNS propagation timing and resolver caching.
Appendix: Verification Commands
DNS Records
dig +noall +answer github.com A
dig +noall +answer github.com AAAA
dig +noall +answer github.com MX
dig +noall +answer github.com NS
dig +noall +answer github.com TXT
Email Authentication
dig +short github.com TXT | grep -i spf
dig +short _dmarc.github.com TXT
dig +short cm._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short google._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short k1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short k2._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short s1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short s2._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short zendesk1._domainkey.github.com TXT
dig +short zendesk2._domainkey.github.com TXT
Domain Security
dig +dnssec +noall +answer github.com DNSKEY
dig +noall +answer github.com DS
dig +dnssec +cd github.com A @1.1.1.1
Transport Security
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt4.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt3.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt2.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
dig +noall +answer _25._tcp.alt1.aspmx.l.google.com TLSA
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect alt4.aspmx.l.google.com:25 -servername alt4.aspmx.l.google.com 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -subject -dates
dig +short _mta-sts.github.com TXT
curl -sL https://mta-sts.github.com/.well-known/mta-sts.txt
dig +short _smtp._tls.github.com TXT
Brand & Trust
dig +short default._bimi.github.com TXT
dig +noall +answer github.com CAA
DNS Records
dig +noall +answer github.com HTTPS
Domain Security
dig +noall +answer github.com CDS
Infrastructure Intelligence
curl -sL 'https://rdap.org/domain/github.com' | python3 -m json.tool | head -50
Transport Security
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect alt4.aspmx.l.google.com:25 -servername alt4.aspmx.l.google.com </dev/null 2>/dev/null | head -5
Infrastructure Intelligence
curl -s 'https://crt.sh/?q=%25.github.com&output=json' | python3 -c "import json,sys; [print(e['name_value']) for e in json.load(sys.stdin)]" | sort -u | head -20
curl -sL https://github.com/.well-known/security.txt | head -20
AI Surface
curl -sI https://github.com/llms.txt | head -5
curl -s https://github.com/robots.txt | grep -i -E 'GPTBot|ChatGPT|Claude|Anthropic|Google-Extended|CCBot|PerplexityBot'
Infrastructure Intelligence
dig +short 4.112.82.140.origin.asn.cymru.com TXT
