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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
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- GUI: fixed problems with graph plotter
2.0.7
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- GUI: fixed duplicate history entries when
pressing return to start a lookup
- Net: added FTP version query
2.0.8
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- Net: Fixed crash in Probe receiver process
2.0.9
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- 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