On-Line
IP Diagnostic Tools
The following links are to sites that provide pass through service
for various IP specific diagnostic tools and database lookups. The
majority of these utilities are simply those feature available to the underlying
operating system on which the web server resides. In some cases you
may be able to specify optional command line arguments with the query.
One Stop Shopping
These sites offer a number of remote on-line diagnostic services.
Details of available services are commented with each link.
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Logica Proxy
This server offers remote ping, traceroute, DNS host and zone, whois, finger,
SMTP and HTTP.
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Netlab
On-line This server offers remote ping, traceroute, whois,
and finger.
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Internet Light and Power
This server offers remote ping, traceroute, whois, finger, and nslookup.
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WDN Unix Utilities
ping, traceroute, whois, nslookup, finger.
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Reverse DNS Lookup
These sites will perform a reverse DNS lookup and display your source
IP address and/or host name.
Ping Service
These sites provide ping services from the remote host. This
is useful to determine if a host is reachable from various parts of the
Internet.
Traceroute Service
These sites provide traceroute services from the remote host.
This is used to show the actual path between the remote host and the specified
destination. A very useful utility to determine how systems are interconnected.
Finger Service
These sites provide finger services from the remote host. This
can be used to determine which users are logged into a particular system.
Not all hosts will accept this type of query over the Internet.
WhoIs Service