An intro to one of my favorite Internet tools
In the Internet industry, IP addresses are very much like postal addresses. They identify your location and your neighborhood. Internet tools that query IP addresses can produce a ton of information about who you are and who you're associated with. For instance, Internet tools can tell if you're blacklisted, display WHOIS information showing administrative and technical contacts, show upstream providers, and if you have a website, when that domain was created and when it's due to expire.
One of my favorite Internet tools is Robtex.
Robtex is known as the Swiss army knife Internet tool because its so versatile. When you open Robtex, the first thing you'll notice is that it displays your IP address with tons of information related to it like:
RBL and DNS checks
DNS reverse and forwards
Your entire c-network
WHOIS lookup information for a domain
Route checks
AS numbers
BGP announcements
AS macros
RFC documents
DMOZ
And it will display the same information for any IP or domain, so if you want to query backbone connections for any provider, you can simply enter that providers domain name and instantly see their upstream. Across the top navigation bar, you'll see tabs for Summary, Records, Graph, Shared, Whois, Blacklists, Analysis and Contact. Want to know host names sharing an IP with A records - it's there. Or domains using this as name server under another name - there again. Is your IP blacklisted? Check and keep your fingers crossed the links are all green (a good thing).
I'm interested to see what your favorite Internet tools are and why?
In the Internet industry, IP addresses are very much like postal addresses. They identify your location and your neighborhood. Internet tools that query IP addresses can produce a ton of information about who you are and who you're associated with. For instance, Internet tools can tell if you're blacklisted, display WHOIS information showing administrative and technical contacts, show upstream providers, and if you have a website, when that domain was created and when it's due to expire.
One of my favorite Internet tools is Robtex.
Robtex is known as the Swiss army knife Internet tool because its so versatile. When you open Robtex, the first thing you'll notice is that it displays your IP address with tons of information related to it like:
RBL and DNS checks
DNS reverse and forwards
Your entire c-network
WHOIS lookup information for a domain
Route checks
AS numbers
BGP announcements
AS macros
RFC documents
DMOZ
And it will display the same information for any IP or domain, so if you want to query backbone connections for any provider, you can simply enter that providers domain name and instantly see their upstream. Across the top navigation bar, you'll see tabs for Summary, Records, Graph, Shared, Whois, Blacklists, Analysis and Contact. Want to know host names sharing an IP with A records - it's there. Or domains using this as name server under another name - there again. Is your IP blacklisted? Check and keep your fingers crossed the links are all green (a good thing).
I'm interested to see what your favorite Internet tools are and why?
