Useful Network Tools
In my job I require a lot of tools. I came across this last year and has been very useful to me. Based on my experience and need, I have created some tools that are useful for everyone. Some of the tools are:1) Ping – this is used to check response times over the Internet between two devices. Given the destination IP address it will send data packets to it and measure response time in milliseconds. Windows also provides a native tool that you can use to measure response time from your location to any destination IP. I use this tool as a secondary confirmation and validation tool for local response time
2) Trace – this is used to trace the path of network packets over the Internet. It will return every single devices that the packet has to pass through unless the device itself does not want to be detected. It is very useful to debug latency issues
3) Whois – this is a domain information tool that can be useful to find out domain ownership.
4) DNS Records – this tool will list all DNS records for a given domain. Useful to test what other users might be seeing
5) Spam Blacklist Check – this tool will check mail server IP against a known set of spam checklist servers. It is very useful to debug emails getting marked as spam for a domain.
2) Trace – this is used to trace the path of network packets over the Internet. It will return every single devices that the packet has to pass through unless the device itself does not want to be detected. It is very useful to debug latency issues
3) Whois – this is a domain information tool that can be useful to find out domain ownership.
4) DNS Records – this tool will list all DNS records for a given domain. Useful to test what other users might be seeing
5) Spam Blacklist Check – this tool will check mail server IP against a known set of spam checklist servers. It is very useful to debug emails getting marked as spam for a domain.
The site also provides various other tools but I primarily use the above 5. A very useful site to have in your bookmark list