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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.

{
  "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 · 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 · 2026-08-28 · closed · 0 comments

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