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projectdiscovery / subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool.

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Bruteforcing | Only If the subdomains list is very large fails #172

Closed 4k4xs4pH1r3 closed 4 years ago

4k4xs4pH1r3 commented 5 years ago

What's the problem (or question)?

When use -w /usr/share/wordlists/dnsmap.txt

Only If the subdomains list is very large appear this=

Starting Bruteforcing of domain.com with 17576 words error: open /usr/share/wordlists/dnsmap.txt: too many open files

Do you have an idea for a solution?

Reproduce the issue at your side and debug.

And Set the feature for use all the wordlists like= -w /usr/share/wordlists/*.*

How can we reproduce the issue?

Execute

~/go/bin/./subfinder --recursive -d domain.com -b -t 37 -w /usr/share/wordlists/dnsmap.txt -o /root/go/bin/domain_com.json -nW -oT -v

What are the running context details?

Installation method (e.g. pip, apt-get, git clone or zip/tar.gz): Install from https://github.com/4k4xs4pH1r3/subfinder#direct-installation
Client OS (e.g. Microsoft Windows 10) Kali GNU/Linux Rolling on Windows 10 x86_64
Program version (see banner): v1.1.3
Relevant console output (if any):
Exception traceback (if any):

Ice3man543 commented 4 years ago

Hey, subfinder is not really the ideal solution for DNS bruteforce. I'll suggest looking into gobuster or massdns! Subfinder is more of a passive subdomain enumeration tool. Thanks for understanding.

Closing this issue now! If you have any other questions, please don't hesitate to ask!