network jack 2.0 rc 1 - 25 August 2002 ====================================== Web (browser) interface to to several internet related networking tools. ----------------------------------------- http://www.the42.net/jack Announcement ------------ We're pleased to announce the availability of the initial public release (candidate 1) of the network jack. network jack is intended as an internet troubleshooting / information gathering tool providing a web interface to several common command line tools, including ping, traceroute, dig, and whois, as well as a subnet mask calculator and a DNS block list (aka blackhole) lookups. Available at http://www.the42.net/jack, it includes the modules: Modules ---------- * Pinger - Ping a host on the internet (currently only IPv4) * Tracer - Traceroute to a host on the internet from the web server (currently only IPv4) * Digger - Do a DNS Dig of a hostname or IP address (for reverse lookups) * Drooler - DNS block list lookup (aka RBL query, blackhole lookup) * Whoser - Whois lookup for domain names and IP addresses / blocks * Netter - Subnet Mask calculator * Linker - "Front" page for the tools, provides spot for links Availability ------------ This software is available under the GNU General Public License V2.0. You can get the newest version at http://www.the42.net/jack Available file formats are: .tar.gz. Support and Documentation ------------------------- There's not much documentation for the network jack at the moment. Installation information is included in the distribution as INSTALL and additional documentation may be available at http://www.the42.net/jack/ The software is provided as is without any express or implied warranty. Known bugs ---------- There are currently no known bugs. Description ----------- network jack is intended as a network troubleshooting / information gathering tool. The idea is to provide a single interface to several commonly / frequently used tools which are not always available on all machines. Author & Copyright ------------------ Copyright (C) 2002 PJ Goodwin Copyrights on portions of the code held by others. In particular * original code for _tl_buildPage, _tl_fetchtemplate, and _tl_buildPageVar functions obtained from opensrs-client code http://www.opensrs.org This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA EOF