One of my favorite web tools, dnsreport dot com, has gone pay only apparently :(

Is there any other service that is as close to advanced with the nice breakdown it does? Perhaps some tool I can install on one of my own servers?

I know the super skilled will says oh just run this, that and the other command line tool for the same info but I really liked the way they did it and how it explained the details.

You could use this one, almost same response are dnsstuff : http://srv.domaininformer.com/srv/DnsReport

they rely on cookies.

so, just clear your cookies before going there.

www.iptools.com

hi dude,

you still can use it for free from this address:
http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/dnsreport.php



You should pay only if you would like to do any of the following:

* bookmark a URL for specific DNSstuff tool result
* type a tool query URL directly into a browser
* embed a DNSstuff tool query URL into a program or script

I thought they still only gave 3 total DNSReports ever, even if you're a member, excluding premium status.

It's a shame because the main thing I used DNSStuff (every day) is the reverse DNS lookup/IP info but now I need to click a lot more.

Their DNSreport was really good and thorough.
Their Spam database check had more entries than anyone else I've seen too.
Nothing posted so far comes even close.

Oh well. Something will come about eventually I guess.

hi dude,

you still can use it for free from this address:
http://member.dnsstuff.com/pages/dnsreport.php


If you are able to run a report there, I am not. They may be doing refer checking which I have to block on my browsers, so that's a poor technique.

I found a nice referer control plugin for firefox (http://www.stardrifter.org/refcontrol/) that lets me keep blocking referers to all sites except a whitelist but dnsreport still only lets you use their tools a few times before it nags you to join.

We just forked over the cash for the membership. Its a great site with loads of tools that I use everyday.

Yes and if I was a commercial customer with decent income I'd pay for it. Most of my clients are non-profits/non-commercial and my $36 is needed elsewhere.

I only use it a few times a month so it's not huge loss but I just wanted to see if it was replaceable. I went through the same thing with Whois.SC a few years back but their free membership allows a dozen requests a day (or something like that) so that worked out.

www.iptools.com is good one :)

People love dnsreport because it has green, red and yello. iptools is good but at dnsreport you will only need to enter your domain and you will get all the results in one page. That really counts even if some dnsreport's checks are not that accurate and good.

www.iptools.com (http://www.iptools.com) is good one :)

I've been using this a lot since you posted it. I know there's a ton of sites out there doing the same thing but I really like this one.

iptools isn't even close to dnsreport - for one thing it doesn't do the pretty+complete dnsreport (my main need)

they also do automated queries to ripe which means they'll probably be blocked sooner or later and they pass-off whois queries to domaintools!

anyone remember the grand-daddy of them all, samspade?
http://web.archive.org/web/19990508161025/http://www.samspade.org/t/ <-- note the 1999 date on there
I still have the offline version of samspade and use it on rare occasion...

www.iptools.com is good one :)

but still they are not as good as DNSStuff/DNSReport. I'm missing DNS report tool which give all information about your domain name/webserver/mail server

I'm slowing writing my own replacement tool (though in pure php it's tricky)

This one is a close match to some of the important info dnsreport gives: http://www.checkdns.net
and this can be useful: http://www.zonecheck.fr/demo/

php is useless at this, unless you use dig or other external program and even so it's not that good... It's nothing tricky here, php does not know about threads and there is nothing you can do right now about it except using dig or other program and to demonstrate that, if you are intrested in speed please pm me and I will give you a link. I have writted a dnsreport clone in other language than php that is currently in testings.