Developer Builds Rust-Based OSINT Engine Managing 35+ Async Streams via Connection Pooling

A developer has built Reconx, an open-source CLI tool written in Rust designed to automate external infrastructure mapping and threat intelligence gathering for penetration testers and bug bounty hunters. The project initially suffered from socket exhaustion because each of its 35-plus OSINT collectors — querying services like Shodan, Censys, and VirusTotal — was creating its own HTTP client, depleting ephemeral ports and file descriptors. To resolve this, the developer refactored the networking layer to use a single shared HTTP client wrapped in an Arc, routing all collector requests through one centralized connection pool. The unified client also incorporates exponential backoff for rate-limited responses and supports HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy routing across all modules without per-collector changes. Reconx is available as an open-source project on GitHub under the handle redshadow912.