My Top Internet / Network Tools

There are lots of useful sites which helps the troubleshooting procedures. I listed some common tools or websites used by myself. Please let me know what you are using and I would like to try them and add them into this list.

1. Internet/Network Tools Portal

• http://ping.eu/

Ping – Shows how long it takes for packets to reach host

Traceroute – Traces the route of packets to destination host from our server
DNS lookup – Look up DNS record
WHOIS – Lists contact info for an IP or domain
Port check – Tests if port is opened on specified IP
Reverse lookup – Gets hostname by IP address
Proxy checker – Detects a proxy server
Bandwidth meter – Detects your download speed from our server
Network calculator – Calculates subnet range by network mask
Network mask calculator – Calculates network mask by subnet range
Country by IP – Detects country by IP or hostname
Unit converter – Converts values from one unit to another

• http://centralops.net/co/
• Robtex Swiss Army Knife Internet Tool

DNS checks detailed dns information for a hostname ( www.facebook.com , www.yahoo.com , www.youtube.com )
IP-number checks ip number information such as dns reverse and forwards
route checks a specific routed prefix
AS numbers checks information on an AS-number
AS macros checks who belongs to an AS-macro

2. Speed Test

• http://www.speedtest.net/
• http://speedcheck.rogers.com/en.html
• iperf from http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/

3. IP Subnet Calculator

• http://jodies.de/ipcalc
• IP Subnet Calculator

4. Network Monitoring Related

• http://www.monitor.us – Free all-in-one IT systems monitoring from the cloud
• Uptime Robot – It monitors your websites every 5 minutes and alerts you if your sites are down
• http://www.paessler.com/prtg – free 100 sensor to monitor your network devices. Remote probe works great. 
• Solarwinds NPM
• OpManager from ManageEngine

5. DNS and Domain Name Related

http://www.dnsstuff.com/ http://my-addr.com/ https://www.whatsmydns.net/ http://www.cloudflare.com – protects and accelerates any website online. CloudFlare is designed to accelerate and secure any website. http://whois.domaintools.com/ – is the leader in domain name, DNS and Internet OSINT-based cyber threat intelligence and cybercrime forensics products and data.

6. BGP Toolkit

• http://bgp.he.net/
• http://routeserver.org/ (telnet into live BGP Routers and Check BGP table, if see BGP routing information is help you to isolate an issue you are facing. )

Choose any one of servers by clicking the spot and it will bring you to this kind of link:  telnet://route-views.on.bb.telus.com 

route-views.ab>show bgp paths 47102
Address    Hash Refcount Metric Path
0x666C2980 2421        0      0 852 3257 4436 23498 47102 47102 i

route-views.ab>sh ip bgp 199.xxx.xxx.0
BGP routing table entry for 199.xxx.xxx.0/24, version 82108513
Bestpath Modifiers: deterministic-med
Paths: (1 available, best #1)
  Not advertised to any peer
  852 3257 4436 23498 47102 47102
    154.11.98.17 from 154.11.98.17 (154.11.0.71)
      Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external, best
      Dampinfo: penalty 1304, flapped 4 times in 00:14:31

7. Your Public IP Address

• http://www.whatismyip.com/
• http://whatismyipaddress.com/

8. Online Diagram Drawing Sites

• Gliffy :Online network diagram drawing website 
• Another useful online visio drawing site is Lucid Chart. 
• https://www.draw.io/
• http://asciiflow.com/

9. Snmp tools

• http://www.net-snmp.org/

10. HTTP and HTTPS Check Tools

• http://www.alertra.com/articles/spotcheck_info/ Spot Check™ provides an easy way to demonstrate how we check from multiple locations and is also a good way to assess the current status of a Web server. The text or other data specified by the URL is loaded according to RFC 2616 (HTTP/1.1). Both HTTP and HTTPS (SSL over HTTP) protocols are supported. 
• http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html
• http://achecker.ca/checker/index.php
• http://www.webpagetest.org/
• https://www.browserling.com/ – Test website using different platform and broswer version.

11. Email Diagnostic Tools

• http://mxtoolbox.com/

12. Proxy Sites

• http://www.vtunnel.com/

13. Remote Support / Online Meeting

• http://www.packetix.net/en/secure/install/
• Teamviewer
• Ammyy Admin
• Sunlogin
• join.me
• Cisco WebEx
• http://www.spreed.com/
• http://vyew.com/

14. Remote (SSH / Telnet) Access Tools

• PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client – chiark home page
• SecureCRT from Vandyke
• Poderosa from SourceForge 
• More from http://alternativeto.net/software/securecrt/

15. NTP Server

• Meinberg NTP

16. Portable Software

• http://www.portablesoft.org/

Before you click away to do some heavy network security reading, please leave a comment and share your favourite network and security tools so that I can add them to my list!

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