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docs: comprehensive documentation for ExploreDNS
- Rewrite README.md with overview, features, installation (go install +
  build from source), quick start, full CLI flag reference table,
  output section descriptions, project structure, and development guide

- Add package-level doc comments to all five internal packages:
  config, dns, fingerprint, output, traverse (via doc.go or existing
  package-declaration files)

- Add GoDoc comments on every exported type, constant, function, and
  method across all packages:
  - internal/config: Config struct fields, all Parse*/Default/Validate
  - internal/dns: QueryConfig, Resolver, BasicResolver, CachingResolver,
    ExchangeFunc, RootServer, RootDiscoveryConfig, DecodedResponse,
    ResponseClassification, all exported helpers
  - internal/fingerprint: Fingerprinter, New, NewWithTimeout, Query,
    FingerprintAll
  - internal/traverse: Traverser, TraverserConfig, TraversalResult,
    Referral, ResolutionState, Response, ResponseType, InfoCache,
    Stack, TraverserHooks, EventStage, TraversalEvent, EventHandler,
    CircularReferralError, UnresolvableNameserverError
  - internal/output: Format, Config, Formatter, SummaryStats,
    NewFormatter, AttachHooks, RunTraversal, DefaultConfig,
    ComputeSummary

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: multica-agent <github@multica.ai>
2026-06-08 04:01:51 +10:00

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package dns
import (
"context"
"fmt"
"net"
"strings"
"time"
"github.com/miekg/dns"
)
// RootServer holds the name and IP addresses of a DNS root nameserver.
type RootServer struct {
// Name is the FQDN of the root nameserver (e.g. "a.root-servers.net.").
Name string
// IPv4 holds the IPv4 addresses for the server.
IPv4 []net.IP
// IPv6 holds the IPv6 addresses for the server.
IPv6 []net.IP
}
// AllIPs returns all IP addresses for the server.
// When includeAAAA is false, only IPv4 addresses are returned.
func (rs *RootServer) AllIPs(includeAAAA bool) []net.IP {
var ips []net.IP
ips = append(ips, rs.IPv4...)
if includeAAAA {
ips = append(ips, rs.IPv6...)
}
return ips
}
// RootDiscoveryConfig controls how DiscoverRoots selects root servers.
type RootDiscoveryConfig struct {
// Server overrides which root server is used. An empty string means
// auto-select the first root server returned by the system resolver.
Server string
// AllRoots queries all 13 root servers instead of just one.
AllRoots bool
// IncludeAAAA includes IPv6 addresses of root servers when true.
IncludeAAAA bool
}
// DefaultRootDiscoveryConfig returns a RootDiscoveryConfig that auto-selects a
// single IPv4-only root server.
func DefaultRootDiscoveryConfig() *RootDiscoveryConfig {
return &RootDiscoveryConfig{
AllRoots: false,
IncludeAAAA: false,
}
}
// DiscoverRoots discovers DNS root servers to use as traversal starting points.
// When cfg.Server is set, that specific root server is used.
// When cfg.AllRoots is true, all 13 root servers are returned.
// Otherwise, a single root server is selected from the system resolver's NS response.
func DiscoverRoots(ctx context.Context, cfg *RootDiscoveryConfig) ([]RootServer, error) {
if cfg == nil {
cfg = DefaultRootDiscoveryConfig()
}
if cfg.Server != "" {
return discoverRootOverride(ctx, cfg.Server, cfg.IncludeAAAA)
}
if cfg.AllRoots {
return discoverAllRoots(ctx, cfg.IncludeAAAA)
}
return discoverSingleRoot(ctx, cfg.IncludeAAAA)
}
func discoverRootOverride(ctx context.Context, server string, includeAAAA bool) ([]RootServer, error) {
resolver := systemResolver()
nsMsg, err := queryResolver(ctx, resolver, ".", dns.TypeNS)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("query root NS records: %w", err)
}
nsSet := extractNSRecords(nsMsg.Answer)
if len(nsSet) == 0 {
nsSet = extractNSNames(nsMsg.Ns)
}
normalized := normalizeServerName(server)
for _, name := range nsSet {
if normalizeServerName(name) == normalized {
return resolveRootServer(ctx, name, includeAAAA)
}
}
return resolveRootServer(ctx, server, includeAAAA)
}
func discoverSingleRoot(ctx context.Context, includeAAAA bool) ([]RootServer, error) {
resolver := systemResolver()
nsMsg, err := queryResolver(ctx, resolver, ".", dns.TypeNS)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("query root NS records: %w", err)
}
nsSet := extractNSRecords(nsMsg.Answer)
if len(nsSet) == 0 {
nsSet = extractNSNames(nsMsg.Ns)
}
if len(nsSet) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no root NS records found in response")
}
pick := nsSet[0]
return resolveRootServer(ctx, pick, includeAAAA)
}
func discoverAllRoots(ctx context.Context, includeAAAA bool) ([]RootServer, error) {
resolver := systemResolver()
nsMsg, err := queryResolver(ctx, resolver, ".", dns.TypeNS)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("query root NS records: %w", err)
}
nsSet := extractNSRecords(nsMsg.Answer)
if len(nsSet) == 0 {
nsSet = extractNSNames(nsMsg.Ns)
}
if len(nsSet) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no root NS records found in response")
}
var servers []RootServer
for _, name := range nsSet {
resolved, err := resolveRootServer(ctx, name, includeAAAA)
if err != nil {
servers = append(servers, RootServer{Name: name})
continue
}
servers = append(servers, resolved...)
}
if len(servers) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to resolve any root servers")
}
return servers, nil
}
func resolveRootServer(ctx context.Context, name string, includeAAAA bool) ([]RootServer, error) {
resolver := systemResolver()
var ipv4 []net.IP
aMsg, err := queryResolver(ctx, resolver, name, dns.TypeA)
if err == nil {
ipv4 = extractIPsFromAnswer(aMsg.Answer, dns.TypeA)
}
var ipv6 []net.IP
if includeAAAA {
aaaaMsg, err := queryResolver(ctx, resolver, name, dns.TypeAAAA)
if err == nil {
ipv6 = extractIPsFromAnswer(aaaaMsg.Answer, dns.TypeAAAA)
}
}
if len(ipv4) == 0 && len(ipv6) == 0 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no addresses for root server %s", name)
}
return []RootServer{{Name: name, IPv4: ipv4, IPv6: ipv6}}, nil
}
func systemResolver() string {
return "127.0.0.1:53"
}
func queryResolver(ctx context.Context, resolverAddr, name string, qtype uint16) (*dns.Msg, error) {
c := &dns.Client{
Net: "udp",
ReadTimeout: 5,
WriteTimeout: 5,
}
if deadline, ok := ctx.Deadline(); ok {
c.ReadTimeout = time.Until(deadline)
c.WriteTimeout = time.Until(deadline)
}
m := new(dns.Msg)
m.SetQuestion(dns.Fqdn(name), qtype)
m.RecursionDesired = true
r, _, err := c.ExchangeContext(ctx, m, resolverAddr)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("resolver exchange %s %s: %w", name, QNameType(qtype), err)
}
return r, nil
}
func extractNSRecords(rrs []dns.RR) []string {
var names []string
seen := make(map[string]bool)
for _, rr := range rrs {
if ns, ok := rr.(*dns.NS); ok {
n := dns.Fqdn(ns.Ns)
if !seen[n] {
seen[n] = true
names = append(names, n)
}
}
}
return names
}
func extractNSNames(rrs []dns.RR) []string {
return extractNSRecords(rrs)
}
func extractIPsFromAnswer(rrs []dns.RR, qtype uint16) []net.IP {
var ips []net.IP
for _, rr := range rrs {
switch v := rr.(type) {
case *dns.A:
if qtype == dns.TypeA {
ips = append(ips, v.A)
}
case *dns.AAAA:
if qtype == dns.TypeAAAA {
ips = append(ips, v.AAAA)
}
}
}
return ips
}
func normalizeServerName(name string) string {
return strings.TrimSuffix(strings.ToLower(name), ".")
}