Search Again: Re: DNS Expert Feature request From: Bennie Warren Date: Sunday, October 28, 2001 Time: 6:44:17 am For a feature request what I would like to see is I input an IP address and it does all the lookups on it and tells me who to contact on that address. What a time saver that would be for tracking down problem people. Spammers, viruses and things like that. Bennie On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 01:34 AM, Aaron Lynch wrote: > On 10/26/01 2:52 PM, Mia's Virtual Post Office mashed the following > keys : > >> Aaron Lynch said: >> >>> I have a feature req. for DNS expert. >>> >>> It would be handy if you could have an option to try and ping every >>> IP it >>> finds a DNS record for. >> >> Yikes.. Why? > > Well, I'm pretty diligent with DNS, yet I still seem to have old ips > creep > in there all the time. If I could get a report that said "six year old > IP > failed to respond" I think it'd be easier to pick out rather than > having to > open every zone and look at every record. > > >> Seems a bit resource intensive. Nothing like tripping >> every norton firewall on the planet as well... > > > Hehe, yeah, definitely an 'advanced' somewhat hidden option would be > good. > In my perfect imaginary world. It would just try a couple pings to > each IP. > So if you had multiple A records pointing to a IP it would try to > connect to > that IP just once. > > (and then in the report tell you all of the domains that reference the > dead > IP) > > Plus, even if your DNS were perfect, it would be a quick way to view > your > whole network, and you might catch something you forgot to put in > whistleblower or something. I dunno, just a idea I had :) > >> >> >> jer (jer@mia.net) >> >> Bella Mia, Inc. >> High Speed Wireless - www.dslone.com >> Web Hosting and Colocation - www.hostdrive.com >> Nation Wide Dialup 4 years and running - www.mia.net >> >> >> >> NetZero = What this company will "NET" --- "ZERO" >> >> >> > > "People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and > have a tremendous impact on history." > ...Governor George W. Bush, Jr. > > > -- ************************************** Bennie Warren LemooreNet 320 West D Street Lemoore, CA 93245 Phone: 559.924.5909 Fax 559.924.9578 bennie@lemoorenet.com http://www.lemoorenet.com **************************************

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