Graphical interface for WHOIS and Traceroute

J

John Corliss

I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could get
away from having to use the command line. What I came up with was Trout:


http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm....htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/trout.htm

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The only problem I've noticed is that when you click on "Help", there
is no help file. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice program.

Anybody else have any recommendations for this type of program?

Incidentally, I notice that this category doesn't exist in the
Pricelessware listings. Am I missing something?

--
Regards from John Corliss
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http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
B

Boomer

John Corliss said:
I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could
get away from having to use the command line. What I came up
with was Trout:


http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm?subnav=resources/navigation.h
tm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/trout.htm

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Try this
http://www.foundstone.com/resources/proddesc/trout.htm

Here's all their tools:
http://www.foundstone.com/resources/freetools.htm
The only problem I've noticed is that when you click on "Help",
there is no help file. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice program.
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I wonder why? Maybe e-mail them? Below quoted from their page:
"All questions, comments, and inquiries regarding this software will
only be answered by emailing (e-mail address removed)."
 
B

Ben Cooper

John said:
I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could get
away from having to use the command line.
Anybody else have any recommendations for this type of program?
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I still prefer to use NetLab 1.4. It hasn't been updated in years and the
programmer's site is long gone but it still works great.
There are still a few place you can find it (468K)-
http://econ.lse.ac.uk/soft/win95/netlab/ (it says NetLab95 which is v1.4)
http://www.answersthatwork.com/Downright_pages/downrights_networking.htm
 
B

Blinky the Shark

John said:
I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could get
away from having to use the command line. What I came up with was Trout:
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samspade.org has a downloadable version of their utils, if you haven't
checked that out, too.
 
J

John Corliss

five said:
John Corliss wrote:
| I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could get
| away from having to use the command line. What I came up with was
| Trout:
|

online;
http://www.nedcomp.nl/visualroute/
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No thanks. I want something that runs straight from my computer and
traces others. From the site at the link you provided:

"This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from location
Rotterdam (Netherlands) to every location on the Internet."

Fraid that wouldn't do me much good.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
J

John Corliss

Jim® said:
http://www.hlembke.de/prod/3dtraceroute/ not bad
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I looked at that one (along with all the other ones listed at
http://www.webattack.com/freeware/network/fwtraceroute.html), but I
couldn't figure out what the z axis was supposed to represent. I was
also looking for one that would save the results as a simple text
file. It's got a lot of features though. May be overkill for me, but
I'll check it out more thoroughly.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
F

five

John Corliss wrote:
|
| No thanks. I want something that runs straight from my computer and
| traces others. From the site at the link you provided:
|
| "This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from location
| Rotterdam (Netherlands) to every location on the Internet."
|
| Fraid that wouldn't do me much good.

Sometimes it's nice to have a second opinion.

five
 
J

John Corliss

five said:
John Corliss wrote:
|
| No thanks. I want something that runs straight from my computer and
| traces others. From the site at the link you provided:
|
| "This VisualRoute Server provides a graphical traceroute from location
| Rotterdam (Netherlands) to every location on the Internet."
|
| Fraid that wouldn't do me much good.

Sometimes it's nice to have a second opinion.
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Good point. Used it just now and it located a bottleneck that I and my
ISP have been after for a while. However, it's an online service
rather than freeware. The actual software costs money.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
G

garrapat

Anybody else have any recommendations for this type of program?
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I use NeoTraceExpress but I don't know if it is still available since
the company was assimilated by Mcafee
 
J

John Corliss

stan said:
best one i found is cyberkit used if for a few years now,
tried many none can replace this yet...5 stars at webattack
I use version 3 its a beta, never tried it on XP, I still use 98

http://www.cyberkit.net/

their site seems to be down atm.

try here for non beta version 2.5, at webattack
http://www.webattack.com/get/cyberkit.html
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Sorry, but I try to stay away from programs that syncronize the time.
They never seem to work on my system for some reason. Looks pretty
good otherwise though.

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see any of Andy Mabbett's troll posts
because I have him killfiled.
 
K

Kristanza

I was looking for such a program the other day so that I could get
away from having to use the command line. What I came up with was Trout:


http://www.foundstone.com/index.htm....htm&subcontent=/resources/proddesc/trout.htm

(link most likely will wrap)

The only problem I've noticed is that when you click on "Help", there
is no help file. Otherwise, it's a pretty nice program.

Anybody else have any recommendations for this type of program?
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You can get NeoTrace Express (freeware, absorbed by McAfee) here:
http://www.networkingfiles.com/PingFinger/Neotraceexpress.htm

hth

K
--

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absolutely certain way of brining this nation to ruin, of preventing
all possibility of it continuing to be a nation at all, would be to
permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.--T Roosevelt
 
J

John Corliss

John said:
That one has a world mapping feature. I'll check it out! Thanks.
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Well I checked it out and here is what I think:

The program wants you to tell it where you are. Understandable I
guess, but I don't like that. Should be able to figure that out from
your IP. Next, it wants to connect with a server to access maps or
somesuch. I *really* don't like that and besides, I supposed if the
server is ever shut down, then the program is pretty much worthless.
Next, it wants a person to optionally register. That's not a big deal
since it's optional.

However, in light of the connecting to a server bit, I removed it from
my system without configuring it or trying it out. Others may not
object to this kind of program, but as far as I'm concerned, "no thanks."

--
Regards from John Corliss
alt.comp.freeware F.A.Q.:
http://www.ccountry.net/~jcorliss/F.A.Q./FrameSet1.html
Note that I can't see Andy Mabbett's obsessive troll posts
because my I have him killfiled.
 

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