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View Full Version : New Tool.. Need ideas or help please.. Heck even a Link.. :)


MatrixRS
05-31-2002, 08:07 PM
I need a kind of tool i have never seen before and still can't find any thing even close.. I think its a very cool idea but not sure yet how it could every work or if it could.. Also if it did what kind of DB would it need could it be made with simple PHP and mySQL, if one big system could hold it or would it need to be in a cluster of them..

Here is why I thought of the tool. As a web host 99% of your orders you may never really see the person on the other end so this does lead to fraud as every one all ready knows.. :(

But we have a company that had or we think they had hosting with us but as the site we removed for none payment we don't have logs or the site to see if its every been really pointed here..

Here is the tool.. Some thing like http://www.archive.org but for where domains point to and where they have been pointed. e.g. if you wanted to know what IP's domain.com has pointed to in its life time or what DNS servers there is ZERO way to find out as far as i know..

What i don't know is how to make it work and if it would be a good or great tool for every one.. If any one has any ideas of how to make this please email ASAP as this is some thing I would love to build up and see how it does.. I also think this may help some of the SPAM problems out there as well as then you could see every domain and IP a DOMAIN has be sent to.

mwatkins
05-31-2002, 08:16 PM
Netcraft does exactly that. However many sites will not be in their database. Still, worth a look.

http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph/?mode_u=off&mode_w=on&site=MatrixReseller.com

MatrixRS
05-31-2002, 08:21 PM
Yea like the one i needed was never put in there.. :( I was thinking of there system but its kind of like what i am talking about but doing it for more domains then what users just put in to check.

mwatkins
05-31-2002, 08:27 PM
Well...

- build your self a "spider"
- that crawls all domains in in the world on a regular basis and
- builds a database of ip history among other things

Then there's the small matter of cost.

C'est la vie!

MatrixRS
05-31-2002, 08:33 PM
- Server Cost Not A Problem..
- Bandwidth not A problem. Pick up a Fee Rack Shack deal and let them go.. hehe