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io.github.mclose/dns-mcp

DNS MCP Server

Is the DNS MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-10-27.

Real-time DNS security analysis — DNSSEC, email auth, and RDAP. Built for SOC investigations.

alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-10-27

27tools
9.3ktokens in Claude Opus 5.5
4.6 %of Claude's 200k window
3.7×the median server
6.6 sto initialize
5 msto list tools
Run it
docker run -i --rm docker.io/mclose/dns-mcp:1.3.4 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host
docker.io
Reports itself as
DNS Query Server 3.0.2
Capabilities
experimental, extensions, prompts, resources, tools
Instructions
none
Of a 1M window
0.9 % of a 1M context window
Count
9.3k tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-27. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 9.6k. The o200k_base estimate is 5.2k. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository
https://github.com/mclose/dns-mcp
Registry
active, updated 2026-03-29 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.78×.

Tool≈ Claude tokenso200k estimateShare of this server
nsec_info6803827 %
check_fast_flux6663747 %
dns_dnssec_validate5843286 %
dns_query_dot5593146 %
check_rbl5483086 %

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