# dns MCP Server

DNS and email security scanner with 76 MCP tools for SPF, DMARC, DNSSEC, SSL, and brand audits.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled dns yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

A hosted endpoint at `https://dns-mcp.blackveilsecurity.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dns": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dns-mcp.blackveilsecurity.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

## Known issues

**75 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### M365 identity_secops: bv-mcp-side tracking for live Graph reads (upstream: bv-web-prod#2276, decision: #759)

Follow-up from #403 (M365 proxy repointed at bv-web-prod, shipped in bv-mcp PR #415 + bv-web-prod #467). The repoint cleared the `m365_proxy_404` by pointing the 4 `identity_secops` tools (`query_signins`, `query_ual`, `get_ca_policies`, `assess_coverage`) at a real bv-web-prod internal route — but that route currently returns a `representative: true` **seam**, not live Microsoft Graph data. Three follow-ups:

### 1. Live Microsoft Graph reads (feature)
bv-web-prod has a real M365 engine (`share

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/417) · 2026-06-19 · open · 8 comments

### v3.58.0 live-verification follow-ups: timeout guidance names the wrong source, Certspotter no longer attempted, BV_CERTSTREAM bound but reports not-consulted

Found by live verification of v3.58.0 immediately after deploy (version `f89d6101`, 100%). #734's fix verifies correctly; these are defects in #735's messaging that I shipped, plus one observation that needs investigating before anyone trusts the new `BV_CERTSTREAM` binding.

## 1. Source-specific measurements are attributed to whichever source timed out

Live output for `meta.com` **and** `anthropic.com`:

```
crtsh timed out — this is deterministic for this domain, not transient, so an identic

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/738) · 2026-08-20 · closed · 5 comments

### MCP best-practices audit: deferred items + corpus-split finding (follow-up to #362)

Follow-up tracking issue from the MCP best-practices audit. PR #362 shipped Findings 1 (transient-DNS resilience) and 3 (tool descriptions). These remaining items were **deliberately held** — each is a public-contract or product decision, not a mechanical fix — plus one finding discovered while implementing #362.

## 1. Discovered: transient-DNS handling is split across two incompatible shapes
**Severity: low–medium (latent correctness + stale docs).**

During #362 we found `check_*` checks hand

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/363) · 2026-06-04 · closed · 5 comments

### Unprovisioned / tier-denied OSINT + recon tools return `passed: true, score: 100`

An unavailable lane returns a result that reads as a clean pass. A consumer keying on `passed`/`score` — a dashboard, a proposal generator, or an LLM skimming the response — records "no findings" where **no measurement was performed**.

### Observed (hosted deployment, 2026-08-18, v3.52.0)

```json
{"category":"osint_investigation","passed":true,"score":100,
 "findings":[{"category":"osint_investigation","title":"OSINT investigation unavailable",
 "severity":"info","detail":"OSINT domain investi

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/695) · 2026-08-18 · closed · 4 comments

### check_dnssec_chain: false 'unverified root' from cached transient-empty (edge-cache hypothesis refuted)

## Summary

`check_dnssec_chain` reports a false **HIGH "Broken DNSSEC chain at ."** for every correctly-signed domain in **production**, because the root (and TLD) `DNSKEY`/`DS` DoH queries return **empty** in prod — even though the records exist.

Surfaced during the full-tool QA pass. Reproduced on cloudflare.com and ietf.org (both broke at `.`, walk stopped at the TLD).

## Root cause — isolated to the prod edge, NOT the code

A real-network test in the **workerd** runtime (same engine as pr

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/199) · 2026-05-24 · closed · 4 comments

### Most recent

### @blackveil/dns-checks version has been frozen at 1.27.0 across three scoring-model bumps — the version no longer identifies the code

`packages/dns-checks/package.json` and `PARITY_CORPUS_VERSION` are both **1.27.0**, and have been since #794. Since then `SCORING_MODEL_VERSION` has advanced **three times**:

| model | shipped in | dns-checks source it changed | package version |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1.13.0 | — | — | bumped to 1.24.0 by #777, then 1.27.0 by #794 |
| 1.14.0 | | scoring | **1.27.0** |
| 1.15.0 | 3.70.0 (#846) | `scoring/classifiers/dmarc.ts`, `parity-fixtures.ts` | **1.27.0** |
| 1.16.0 | 3.71.0 (#850) | `

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/855) · 2026-08-30 · open · 0 comments

### DMARC check recommends aspf=s unconditionally — the advice breaks mail on any ESP-relayed domain

## Summary

`check_dmarc` emits **"Relaxed SPF alignment — Consider `aspf=s` (strict) for stronger authentication"** whenever `aspf` is relaxed or unset, with no regard for whether the domain's envelope-from (return-path) domain can ever align strictly with its `From` domain.

For any domain that sends through an ESP — Resend, SendGrid, Mailchimp, Postmark, SES-with-a-subdomain-MAIL-FROM — the return path sits on a **subdomain**, so `aspf=s` guarantees SPF alignment failure on 100% of that traff

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/842) · 2026-08-30 · closed · 0 comments

### check_ssl asserts "HSTS properly configured" (score 100, controlPresent:true) on any apex that redirects over HTTPS — the header is never read

## Summary

`check_ssl` emits its affirmative HSTS finding from the **absence of findings**, not from observing the header. For any apex that answers `https://` with a redirect to another HTTPS URL, the HSTS header is **never read at all** — so the check returns `passed: true`, `score: 100`, `controlPresent: true` and the text *"HSTS header is properly configured"* for a domain publishing no HSTS header.

This is a false **affirmative**, the dangerous direction, and it is the same class as #705 

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/839) · 2026-08-29 · closed · 1 comment

### check_lookalikes: throttled run publishes a CONTRARY ownership attribution instead of unmeasured (jcpenny.com: third_party at 63/94 unresolved, owned_by_seed at 1/94)

## Summary

Under throttling, `check_lookalikes` publishes a **contrary ownership attribution** instead of declining to attribute. A run with 63 of 94 candidate lookups unresolved reported `jcpenny.com` as `third_party` with the detail "no ownership signal links it to this organisation" — the signals weren't absent, they were **unfetched**. Near-complete runs of the same scan report `owned_by_seed` on a full 8/8 nameserver match.

## Measurement (2026-08-29, three sequential `force_refresh:true`

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/832) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

### check_lookalikes: registered-but-dark lookalike (NS, no A/MX) is invisible — 'held and dark' collapses into silence (febreeze.com, 3/3 runs)

## Summary

A lookalike domain that is **registered but deliberately dark** (NS present, no A, no MX) is invisible in `check_lookalikes` output: it passes candidate generation and NS resolution, then the findings gate drops it silently because it has neither A nor MX. "Held and dark" and "unregistered" are opposite custody facts, but the tool's output renders them identically — as silence.

## Measurement (2026-08-29)

- `febreeze.com` (the doubled-e cognitive misspelling of `febreze.com`) is ge

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/831) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

### check_root_server_set: unvalidated probe response can throw an uncaught TypeError (evidence.rootHints read unconditionally)

Found during PR #827's work (root-server-set vacuous-pass fix), out of that PR's scope.

`fetchRootServerSetEvidence()` (`src/lib/authoritative-dns-infra/probe-client.ts`) performs no runtime schema validation on the infra-probe response, and `rootHintsMatchOfficial()` (`src/lib/authoritative-dns-infra/analyze-root-server-set.ts`) calls `evidence.rootHints.length` unconditionally. A probe response that omits `rootHints` entirely therefore throws an uncaught `TypeError` inside `analyzeRootServerS

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/828) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

### check_rbl: dead SORBS zone counted as a deterministic clean verdict — effective coverage is 6 RBLs, not 7

## Symptom (validation sweep 2026-08-28/29, google.com and blackveilsecurity.com)

`check_rbl` claims *"All checked IPs for <domain> are clean on 7 RBLs."* with `metadata.zones` including `"dnsbl.sorbs.net"` and `"confidence": "deterministic"`.

## Ground truth: the SORBS zone no longer exists

SORBS shut down in mid-2024; the entire domain NXDOMAINs, cross-resolver:

```
curl dns.google  "2.0.0.127.dnsbl.sorbs.net A"       → Status 3  (universal test point NOT listed)
curl dns.google  "dnsbl.so

[Read the thread](https://github.com/MadaBurns/bv-mcp/issues/814) · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for dns](/mcp/dns/issues) — of 75 qualified upstream.

## Firsthand observations

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