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Dns

Dns schema from Censys Platform API

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
additionals	arraynull	A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the ADDITIONAL section of the response.
answers	arraynull	A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the ANSWER section of the response.
authorities	arraynull	A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the AUTHORITIES section of the response.
edns	object
questions	arraynull	A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the QUESTION section of the response, which may echo the request that the server is responding to.
r_code	string	A enumerated field indicating the result of the request. The most common values are defined in RFC 1035.
resolves_correctly	boolean	Whether the server returns an IP address for ip.parrotdns.com that matches the authoritative server, which is controlled by Censys.
server_type	string	An enumerated value indicating the behavior of the server. An AUTHORITATIVE server fulfills requests for domain names it controls, which are not listed by the server. FORWARDING and RECURSIVE_RESOLVER
version	string

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/censys/refs/heads/main/json-schema/platform-dns-schema.json",
  "title": "Dns",
  "description": "Dns schema from Censys Platform API",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "additionals": {
      "description": "A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the ADDITIONAL section of the response.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Dns_ResourceRecord"
      },
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "answers": {
      "description": "A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the ANSWER section of the response.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Dns_ResourceRecord"
      },
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "authorities": {
      "description": "A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the AUTHORITIES section of the response.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Dns_ResourceRecord"
      },
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "edns": {
      "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Dns_EDns"
    },
    "questions": {
      "description": "A list of resource records (RRs) contained in the QUESTION section of the response, which may echo the request that the server is responding to.",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/components/schemas/Dns_ResourceRecord"
      },
      "type": [
        "array",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "r_code": {
      "description": "A enumerated field indicating the result of the request. The most common values are defined in RFC 1035.",
      "enum": [
        "",
        "success",
        "format_error",
        "server_failure",
        "name_error",
        "not_implemented",
        "refused",
        "yx_domain",
        "yx_rrset",
        "nx_rrset",
        "not_auth",
        "not_zone",
        "bad_sig",
        "bad_key",
        "bad_time",
        "bad_mode",
        "bad_name",
        "bad_alg",
        "bad_trunc",
        "bad_cookie"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "resolves_correctly": {
      "description": "Whether the server returns an IP address for ip.parrotdns.com that matches the authoritative server, which is controlled by Censys.",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "server_type": {
      "description": "An enumerated value indicating the behavior of the server. An AUTHORITATIVE server fulfills requests for domain names it controls, which are not listed by the server. FORWARDING and RECURSIVE_RESOLVER servers fulfill requests indirectly for domain names they do not control. A RECURSIVE_RESOLVER will query ip.parrotdns.com itself, resulting in its own IP address being present in the dns.answers.response field.",
      "enum": [
        "",
        "recursive_resolver",
        "authoritative",
        "forwarding",
        "redirecting"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "version": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}