The World's Greatest Hacking Links
according to

"Hackers are America's Greatest Natural Resource..."

Did you know we were voted one of the
Top Hacker & Crypto Rebel Sites
on the Net by PC World?


Are we supposed to care?


Anti-Spam Multi-tool


Source: Monash University
Address:
Tool:


NetCraft Domain Reporter

Source: NetCraft
Domain Name
(*.microsoft.com)

Consumer Net's Multi-tool

Source: Consumer.Net · help
IP Lookup
Whois Query via InterNIC
WWWHOIS (Internic, .UK, .CA, and .AU)
Network Lookup - IP address or IP block
Ping
Traceroute
DNS Records
Raw HTTP headers
Censored Domains
See Netly News for more info.

EXPRESS TRACE - Reverse lookup, trace, wwwhois, DNS plus network lookup
Host:  
[The initial value is your computer's IP] help

Whois/
Traceroute/
IP block


Source: Sam Spade
(Address may be in form of user@domain.com, domain.org, or numeric IP)
Address:
[ Whois | Traceroute | IP block ]


SMTP Relay Check


Source: Sam Spade
Address:


Usenet News Author Profile


Source: DejaNews
Email address:


DNS Dig Tool

Source: Mike's Net Utils
A - Network Address
ANY - All/Any Information
MX - Mail Exchanger
NS - Name Servers
SOA - Zone of Authority Record
HINFO - Host information
Host:

Multi DNS Tool


Source: DNS Pro DNS Cakewalk
Host:


IP-Range DNS Query

From: Realtime Anywhere
 start from IP address ...
 start from DNS name   
 start from your host

 +- step  ...

Demon.Net Tool Array


Source: Demon.Net Internet Query Tools
Authoritative Domain Query (use domain name)

Domain DNS Query (use domain name)

Host DNS Query (use netname / network address name)

Generic Whois Lookup (use domain name or IP address)

InterNIC Whois Lookup (use name, domain name, handle)

Lookup a CO.UK/ORG.UK Domain (use domain name)

Query RIPE (use netname / network address name)

RWhois Query

Source: RWhois

MX Lookup
Ping
IP Lookup
Test Email

Source: Left Coast Systems
   Host:  
   Host:  
   Host:  
     To: 
Subject: 
   Text:

Visual Traceroute

Source: Matrix Info. Directory Svs.
Host:
Or paste the text of a UNIX-style traceroute below.

Bandwidth Test
Source: PCWorld Online

This test measures how long it takes for 128 bytes to travel from pcworld.com to your computer and back. Web traffic varies, so the test is duplicated for Netscape and IBM. Compare results, but remember, results may differ each time you run the test.

Also try:

Bandwidth Test
 
Test gateway bandwidth via triumf.ca (takes time).

Miscellaneous Tools

NAPS, MAEs and IXs
   

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