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The DNS toolkit for Laravel: authoritative lookups, domain-ownership verification, DNSSEC validation, and intoDNS/MxToolbox-style diagnostics — exposed through a facade, Artisan commands, and validation rules.

This package is the Laravel integration for the framework-agnostic cboxdk/dns engine. The DNS protocol handling, verification, propagation, SPF/DMARC parsing, and DNSSEC chain validation all live in that core library; this package wires it into the container, config, the console, and the validator so it is one composer require away in a Laravel app.

Installation

composer require cboxdk/laravel-dns

The service provider is auto-discovered. Publish the config if you want to tune the resolver:

php artisan vendor:publish --tag="dns-config"

It works with zero configuration out of the box (a raw UDP/TCP socket resolver against 1.1.1.1).

Configuration

config/dns.php:

The socket transport can target a zone's own authoritative nameservers, which domain-ownership verification and propagation checks require. The doh transport only queries a provider's recursive resolver, so it cannot answer authoritative or propagation queries.

Facade

use Cbox\LaravelDns\Facades\Dns;
use Cbox\Dns\Enums\RecordType;

$response = Dns::lookup('example.com', RecordType::MX);
$response->values();                       // ['mail.example.com']

Dns::verifyDomain('example.com', $token);  // bool — read authoritatively
Dns::challengeHost('example.com');         // '_cbox-challenge.example.com'

$report = Dns::diagnose('example.com');    // Cbox\Dns\Diagnostics\Report
$report->hasErrors();

Dns::dnssec()->validate('example.com');    // Cbox\Dns\Dnssec\ValidationResult

You can also inject the core types directly — the container binds both Cbox\Dns\Dns and the Cbox\Dns\Contracts\Resolver contract:

public function __construct(private \Cbox\Dns\Dns $dns) {}

Artisan commands

php artisan dns:lookup example.com MX          # table of records
php artisan dns:verify example.com <token>     # ownership challenge + result
php artisan dns:diagnose example.com           # grouped findings, non-zero exit on errors
php artisan dns:propagation www.example.com A example.com [--all]
php artisan dns:dnssec example.com             # secure / insecure / bogus + reason

Validation rules

use Cbox\LaravelDns\Rules\DnsRecordExists;
use Cbox\LaravelDns\Rules\DomainVerified;
use Cbox\Dns\Enums\RecordType;

$request->validate([
    'mail_domain' => ['required', new DnsRecordExists(RecordType::MX)],
    'domain'      => ['required', new DomainVerified($team->dns_token)],
]);

DnsRecordExists fails when the value resolves no record of the given type; DomainVerified fails unless the value publishes the challenge token in its authoritative TXT record.

Testing

Compose InteractsWithDns into your host application's TestCase to stub records and assert with zero network I/O:

use Cbox\LaravelDns\Testing\InteractsWithDns;
use Cbox\Dns\Enums\RecordType;

$this->fakeDns()->stub('example.com', RecordType::MX, ['mail.example.com']);

Dns::lookup('example.com', RecordType::MX)->values(); // ['mail.example.com']

fakeDns() swaps the container's resolver and Dns bindings for an in-memory fake, so the facade, commands, and validation rules all resolve stubbed records.

Requirements

• PHP 8.4+
• Laravel 12.x or 13.x

The DNS engine

All DNS behaviour is provided by cboxdk/dns — including the spoofing-resistant resolver, the SSRF-guarded authoritative reader, SPF/DMARC/CAA parsing, and DNSSEC chain validation against the IANA root trust anchors. This package claims only the Laravel integration.

Documentation

Full documentation lives in docs/.

Credits

• Sylvester Damgaard

License

The MIT License (MIT). See LICENSE.md.