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NetInfo II 2.11
===============
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
- "ping": Sends a sequence of ICMP ECHO packets to a host
to measure network latency and stability.
- graphical display of hop min/last/max timings for
TRACE
- graphical display of ping times for PING
- shows geographical location of hosts with
country flags
- 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) 1997-2001 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
and PING 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.
__________________________________________________________________________
ARexx commands
--------------
Besides the standard MUI ARexx commands supported for every
MUI application, NetInfo II implements the following AREXX commands:
TRACE HOST/A
Start a traceroute to the given host
PING HOST/A
Start a ping to the given host
FINGER USERHOST/A
Open a finger query to the specified user@host
WHOIS OBJECT/A,SERVER
Open a whois query for the specified object,
optionally to the given server
STOP
Abort a traceroute in progress
__________________________________________________________________________
Changes from Release 2.10 to 2.11
---------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- fixed deadlock problems with multiple PING
responses
- improvements for dealing with the new V3 RIPE
database
- improvements in WHOIS network prefix lookup
tables
Changes from Release 2.9 to 2.10
--------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- graphical chart display of PING results
- cache info/cleanup option
- various bug fixes
Changes from Release 2.5 to 2.8
-------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- added support for classical PING
Changes from Release 2.4 to 2.5
-------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- now supports Internic WHOIS redirection
Changes from Release 2.3 to 2.4
-------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- Flag images are now integrated to speed up
operation and reduce disk consumption
- Fixed screwed up catalogs introduced in 2.3
Changes from Release 2.2 to 2.3
-------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- Domain to Whois server mapping is now
external
- PRINT functionality for FINGER/WHOIS results
- ARexx port
Changes from Release 2.0 to 2.2
-------------------------------
(see "Revision History" for full details)
- several bugfixes
__________________________________________________________________________
Future plans
------------
- some real documentation
- 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
__________________________________________________________________________
Revision history
----------------
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
2.1.0 [2.1 Release]
-------------------
- Net: fixed a serious bug in handling the case
of a finger or whois window being closed while
a query was outstanding. Ended up doing
a DoMethod( 2, ... )
- GUI: now keeps the canonical host name and IP
in result field after trace has finished
- Net: removed stale as225 code from network
module
- Net: now removes \r from FTP server reply
- Net: made local ID less ambigious across
several NetInfo instances
- Net: fixed problems when a probe was restarted
and stale packets from previous probe were
still coming in
- General: recompiled with full optimizations
- General: giving a host name on the command line
now immediately starts the traceroute
- GUI: fixed problems with restarting a trace
in mid-progress causing bogus "??" entries
to be inserted into the result listview
- GUI: clicking "start" with an empty host
gadget will now active the gadget
2.2 [2.2 Release]
---
- Net: fixed a lame bug in the changed socket
code which would cause havoc(tm) if NI
was started without TCP/IP stack running
(Olli)
2.2.1
-----
- Net: added "domain-registry.nl" as the NL
domain registry (Olli)
2.3 [Release]
-------------
- Net: made the domain->whois server mapping
an external table file "PROGDIR:NetInfo.DomainTable"
(Olli)
- GUI: added "Print" function to WHOIS window (Olli)
- GUI: added "Print" function to FINGER window (Olli)
- General: added ARexx port (Olli)
2.3.1
-----
- Net: failure to lookup a host for trace will now show
this accordingly (Olli)
2.3.2
-----
- GUI: flag images are now integrated into the program,
which reduces both disk space requirement and in-program
overhead due to datatype objects (Olli)
2.3.3
-----
- GUI: no longer shows the "Register" buttons when
registered (Olli)
- General: fixed 2.3 catalog screwup
2.4 [Release]
-------------
- General: added updated Installer script which
properly verifies whether libs could be updated
(RobR, Zapek)
2.5
---
- Net: added automated whois redirection from
internic to new TLD registrars for WHOIS
lookups (Olli)
2.5.1
-----
- Net: added DNS cache (Olli)
2.6
---
- GUI: added support for world map rendering of
route (Olli)
2.7
---
- GUI: reverted world map, due to crap results (Olli)
- General: removed now obsolete image dir parameter (Olli)
2.8
---
- General: added "PING" functionality (Olli)
- Rexx: added "PING HOST/A" command (Olli)
- Net: fixed a race condition in shutdown which could
result in a lockup (Olli)
2.9
---
- Net: ping result list is now cleared properly (Olli)
- Net: fixed missing IP version and header length fields,
which caused compatibility issues with Olsen's TCP/IP
stack (Olli)
2.10
----
- GUI: added graphical chart of PING times (Olli)
- General: added "Cache status" menu item, which shows
the number of cache entries and offers cleaning of
all caches (Olli)
- General: now permits 10 lookups in demo mode (Olli)
- General: fixed version tags :) (Olli)
- General: distribution updated with current libs
and classes (Olli)
2.11
----
- Net: PING probe no longer falls over upon multiple
ping replies (when e.g. pinging a broadcast address) (Olli)
- GUI: ping "RTT" column is now right aligned; also fixed
"lost packets" displays (now shows both count and percentage
of packets lost) (Olli)
- Whois: added workaround against RIPE returning "The whole IPv4
address space" quirk, will redirect to ARIN in such cases (Olli)
- Whois: ARIN parser now searches the most specific match for
multiple returns (Olli)
- Whois: updated table of APNIC-assigned IPv4 networks (Olli)
- Net: HTTP probe User-Agent: date stamp fixed (Olli)
- General: history file date stamp fixed (Olli)