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- NetInfo II
- ==========
-
- NetInfo II is a network information viewer utility. It integrates
- the functionality of the well known standalone TRACEROUTE, PING, WHOIS
- and FINGER programs into a seamless GUI application.
-
- Features:
-
- - "quick traceroute": Sends a series of packet in quick
- succession to get a route overview very fast, then
- does accurate timings for the individual hops
-
- - graphical display of hop min/last/max timings
-
- - integrated smart WHOIS function: double-click on
- a IP, Host or Network column to automatically receive
- WHOIS information for the given object. NetInfo
- determines the WHOIS host to query.
-
- - automatically retrieves WHOIS network information
- for hosts
-
- - automatically scans destination host for Web (HTTP) and FTP
- server versions
-
- - history for all queried hosts
-
- - integrated FINGER client
-
- - integrated "classical" WHOIS client with on-disk cache
-
- NetInfo is (C) 1997-99 Oliver Wagner <owagner@vapor.com>, All Rights
- Reserved.
-
- NetInfo works with Genesis, Miami and AmiTCP. "socket.library"-based
- TCP/IP stacks (as225r2 etc.) are not supported, and the traceroute
- functionality won't work with SOCKS (whois and finger will, though).
-
- NetInfo uses MUI 3.8 and the "NList" list classes by Gilles Masson.
- NList is available from AmiNet or from ftp.vapor.com, in the
- "/pub/3rdparty/" directory.
-
- Future plans:
-
- - some real documentation
- - pure "PING" functionality, just sending ICMP_ECHOs to a host
- - printing of finger/whois results
- - printing of the traceroute result
- - ascii export (clipboard/file) of traceroute result
- - more extensive service scanning
- - offline browsing of the cached data
- - configuration of colors used to graph plotting
- - editing of history list
- - more obvious progress report
- - ARexx port
-
- 2.0.1 - 2.0.4
- -------------
- [internal]
-
- 2.0.5
- -----
- - General: first alpha release after redesign
-
- 2.0.6
- -----
- - GUI: fixed problems with graph plotter
-
- 2.0.7
- -----
- - GUI: fixed duplicate history entries when
- pressing return to start a lookup
- - Net: added FTP version query
-
- 2.0.8
- -----
- - Net: Fixed crash in Probe receiver process
-
- 2.0.9
- -----
- - GUI: fixed stop button
- - Net: fixed finger DNS error message
- - GUI: fixed starting with empty host string
-
- 2.0.10
- ------
- - DB: made 151.0.0.0/8 be looked up in RIPE DB
- as well (fixes Italy ITNet lookups :)
- - GUI: Location is now filled as well and shown
- with nice flags (done by Beej). Tries the find
- the country from the WHOIS DB first, but can
- fall back to hostname (mostly for stupid
- ARIN replies)
-
- 2.0.11
- ------
- - GUI: fixed graph rendering problems on
- 16/24-bit screens
- - GUI: added heurestic to properly cut
- hostnames like "www.active-net.co.uk"
- - Net: added workaround for nic.uk
- whois query bug
- - Net: changed TLD->whois matching to
- now always fall back to whois.ripe.net
- and only list exceptions. Current
- exception list has:
- com/org/net -> Internic
- uk -> whois.nic.uk
- ca -> whois.cdnnet.ca
- If you find more required exceptions,
- please report
- - GUI: reply header on whois queries
- now has the time and date of the fetch
- - GUI: fixed finger history
- - GUI: made whois and finger window default
- sizes more reasonable
- - GUI: fixed lame bug: whois/finger queries
- where started before the window objects
- where added to the app, thus causing
- crash under certain circumstances
- - GUI: added menu item to directly finger
- a selected host
- - GUI: selecting an entry or pressing enter
- in finger window now starts query
- - Net: added 130.244/16 to list of ripe-assigned
- networks
-
- 2.0.12
- ------
- - GUI: fixed graph rendering mask
- blitting minterm. Should fix rendering
- problems some people reported.
- - Net: fixed stripping of first chars
- with "blah.co.uk"-alike demons
- - Net: fixed domain whois server lookup
- table (should fix .uk lookups again :)
- - General: Fixed total and utter crash
- when being started without TCP/IP stack
- - GUI: added 3D bordered flags (this needs
- to be selectable)
- - DB: added 164.* to the list of RIPE
- managed networks (grrr)
-
- 2.0.13
- ------
- - DB: ARIN Whois queries are now done
- with a "NE =" prefix to get more verbose
- information for multiple matches.
-
- 2.0.14
- ------
- - Net: changed the way how network lookups
- are done: Now always first queries
- whois.ripe.net, and only on a fail falls
- back to whois.arin.net/whois.apnic.net.
- Should heavily improve the quality of
- the Location: results (you may have to
- delete PROGDIR:Cache for changes to take
- effect)
- - Net: added special handling for
- 127.0.0.1 net queries
-
- 2.0.15
- ------
- - Net: now also understands the famous
- "This is a dummy object..." reply from
- ripe as a hint to query ARIN instead :)
- - Net: split DNS lookup and network lookup
- in two different processes (DNS is normally
- much faster than the tons of WHOIS queries
- which must be performed)
- - GUI: starting without TCP/IP stack will
- now yield an error requester and no more
- crash.
- - GUI: selecting an entry and/or entering
- a name and pressing enter will now abort
- an traceroute in progress and start the new
- one, instead of simply stopping.
-
- 2.0.16
- ------
- - GUI: added "open new window" menu item
- - Prefs: added ImageDir tooltype/shell option
- to set image location
- - Prefs: added CacheDir tooltype/shell option
- to set cache location
- - Net: fixed a bug with restarting a new trace
- with whois/dns lookups for a previous trace
- still going on
- - Net: "Location" is now again filled in
- by reverse DNS TLD first, then by WHOIS
- (showing "US" for the internic TLDs)
- - GUI: initial refreshes are now happening
- less often
- - GUI: Location which is based on incomplete
- information (DNS, ARIN responses) is now
- shown in blue text
- - General: Added Installer Script done
- by Robert Reiswig
-
- 2.0.17
- ------
- - GUI: input gadget now uses cursor up/down
- to browse the history list without opening it
-
- 2.0.18 [2.0 Release]
- --------------------
- - GUI: The whois menu items for selected host
- operations are now disabled when no host
- is selected
- - GUI: fixed tab cycle chains in finger
- and whois windows
- - GUI: result text field now has a vert scrollbar
- (just in case)
- - GUI: input gadget is now active when the window
- opens
- - General: Updated Installer Script (RobR)
- - General: added Vapor_Update support
-