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d3mondev / puredns

Puredns is a fast domain resolver and subdomain bruteforcing tool that can accurately filter out wildcard subdomains and DNS poisoned entries.
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Heavy Load on Wi-Fi Router #18

Closed Archurcl4w closed 2 years ago

Archurcl4w commented 2 years ago

Hello I am running puredns bruteforce wordlist.txt domain.com -w brute.txt where my wordlist is 3 Million . After around 4 to 5 hours it gave a heavy load on my Wi-Fi router and it did not work properly. Disconnected many times and network speed also reducing so unable to open proper web pages. It almost fried the router. I can't finish this test. To solve it and effectively running should I use -l flag and set the value between 2000-10000 . If so which will be correct value for 3 Million wordlist ?Further should I also use --wildcard-batch 1000000 ? I am running on home system without VPS. Kindly enlighten me as well as to further improvement of puredns in such similar cases .Is require any other --wildcard flags ?

d3mondev commented 2 years ago

puredns can easily overload Wifi, residential connections and even some VPS providers network.

Controlling the rate of queries per second with the --rate-limit and --rate-limit-trusted flags is the correct way to try to limit the bandwidth. As to what exact value to use, it depends on each connection and should be figured out with trial and error.