Internet Authorities and Tools
Address Supporting Organization
ASO
The Address Supporting Organization (ASO), is one of the Supporting
Organizations called for in the ICANN Bylaws to be formed through community
consensus. The purpose of the ASO is to review and develop recommendations
on IP address policy and to advise the ICANN Board on these matters. In July
1999, the three currently existing Regional Internet Registries (APNIC, ARIN,
and RIPE NCC) submitted a proposal to form the ASO on the basis of a
Memorandum of Understanding. ICANN accepted this proposal on 26 August 1999.
The ASO was subsequently formed on 19 October 1999, when the MoU was signed
by representatives of APNIC, ARIN, and RIPE NCC and of ICANN, during the
ARIN Open Policy Meeting in Denver, USA. LACNIC signed the MoU in 30 October
2002 following its official recognition as an RIR.
Regional Internet Registries RIR statistics in ASCII text reports can be
found at the following:
ftp://ftp.apnic.net/pub/stats/apnic/ |
ftp://ftp.arin.net/pub/stats/arin/
ftp://ftp.lacnic.net/pub/stats/lacnic/ |
ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/stats/
Atlas of Cyberspaces
This is an atlas of maps and graphic representations of the geographies of
the new electronic territories of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other
emerging Cyberspaces.
BandWidthPlace Speed Test
BandWidth
Test - McAfee Speedometer
Bandwidth
Test
ZDNet online connection speed test. The ZDNetUK Bandwidth Speed Test won’t
replace a vanload of highly-trained network analysts with tonnes of test
equipment, but it’s free, it works and it’s just a click away.
Bandwidth Test
Test your Internet connection speed with INFO-Tech Speed test. Does your
Internet connection fly like an eagle or crawl like a tortoise? Is it just
your imagination, or is your Internet connection slow today? Whether you are
using a cable modem, an asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL), digital
subscriber line (DSL), integrated services digital network (ISDN)
connection, or just a plain old dial-up modem, the Bandwidth Speed Test will
give you the answer.
Bandwidth Test - Broadband Download and Upload Speed Test
testmy.net
Block Lists - Proxies - Relays
Blackholes |
Blitzed |
Completewhois
Bogon IPs |
DNSBL |
DShield |
iDefense | kgb | NJABL
|
SORBS
Wirehub
Classless Inter-Domain Routing - CIDR
CIDR FAQ |
CIDR-Report
|
Introduction to IPv6 |
Subnetting and CIDR
CyberAtlas
Thanks to my friend Dan Horowitz for pointing out this great resource
Don't Be Afraid, Be Informed.
CyberAtlas provides readers with valuable statistics and Web marketing
information, enabling them to understand their business environment and make
more informed business decisions. CyberAtlas gathers online research from
the best data resources to provide a complete review of the latest surveys
and technologies available. Since its inception in 1996, CyberAtlas has
amassed numerous awards from reputable websites such as PC Magazine and USA
Today. Also noteworthy, major websites and Internet sources cite CyberAtlas
as the place to begin your online research. The site was acquired in August
of 1998 by internet.com.
DNS Resources Directory
The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed Internet directory service.
DNS is used mostly to translate between domain names and IP addresses, and
to control Internet email delivery. Most Internet services rely on DNS to
work, and if DNS fails, websites cannot be located and email delivery
stalls.
DNS Root Server Statistics:
Root-Server.org |
Root Server System
Advisory (RSSAC) |
CAIDA |
CYMRU |
CYMRU Org
Zone
DNS - Securing an Internet Name Server
A CERT Coordination Center document
PDF by
Allen Householder, CERT/CC Brian King, CERT/CC in collaboration with Ken
Silva, Verisign and based in part on a presentation originally created by
Cricket Liu.
DNS Troubleshooting - Everything Depends on it
By Gideon T. Rasmussen - CISSP, CISM, CFSO, SCSA -
CyberGuard.
DNS Troubleshooting Tools
Dig is available at
IP-Plus
or
MenandMice and
Domain Dossier to Investigate domains and IP addresses.
DNS
Verification Tool by Merit
This tool is used to check forward and reverse DNS lookups on a specific IP
address or host domain name. For additional information, see our FAQ at:
http://www.merit.edu/mn/support/dnsfaq.html.
E-Mail Resources:
E-mail tracking resources by
DMOZ.org on how to read and interpret email headers and track the source.
Comprehensive E-mail resource by Gerald E. Boyd
www.expita.com.
E-Mail Troubleshooting by Gideon T. Rasmussen - CISSP, CISM, CFSO, SCSA -
CyberGuard.
Status Error Codes:
RFC Defined |
RFC 1893
| RFC 3463
Geektools
Calculators - Geektels - RFCs - Software - Spam Tools - Traceroute - Whois
Geographical
Location of a Host's IP Address
How to find the geographical location of a host, given its IP address.
In general, it is impossible - IP addresses are allocated arbitrarily, as
there's no inherent connection between an IP address and it's physical
location, and there's no reliable method to do the trick. Yet, doing some
detective work could help.
How Many Online?
The art of estimating how many are online throughout the world is an inexact
one at best. Surveys abound, using all sorts of measurement parameters.
However, from observing many of the published surveys over the last two
years, here is an "educated guess" as to how many are online worldwide as of
August 2001. And the number is 513.41 million.
HTTP Hypertext
Transfer Protocol by W3C and HTTP/1.1 RFC
2616 Status Code Definitions.
IANA
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority is dedicated to preserving the central
coordinating functions of the global Internet for public good offering
Domain Name, IP Address, and Protocol Number Assignment Services.
ICANN
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers is a nonprofit
corporation formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space
allocations, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management,
and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S.
Government contract by IANA and other entities.
ICMP Type and Code Fields by IANA.
ICMP Usage in Scanning (PDF
5.39mb) (PDF
Zipped 1.76mb)- The Complete Know-How by Ofir Arkin Sys-Security Group.
Internet2
NetFlow: Weekly Reports
NetFlow data from all core routers of the Abilene network are analyzed to
produce weekly reports of use of the network. In essence, this is a weekly
version of the "Bulk TCP Use and Performance on Internet2" by Stanislav
Shalunov and Benjamin Teitelbaum (note, however, that the paper used one day
of data while the reports use a week of data each and that the paper used
data from the busiest router while the reports present a network-wide view).
The reports are produced automatically using programs written by Anatoly
Karp and Stanislav Shalunov. The CWEB program nfstat.w reads large daily
files and produces intermediate results that are further digested by a
collection of Perl programs.
Internet
Encyclopedia - Reference to Technical Operation of the Internet
The Internet Encyclopedia attempts to take the Internet tradition of open,
free protocol specifications, merge it with a 1990s Web presentation, and
produce a readable and useful reference to the technical operation of the
Internet.
Internet FAQ Consortium
This archive contains Usenet postings, Internet Request For Comments RFC,
Standards Documents STD, For Your Information Documents FYI, and Best
Current Practices BCP.
Internet Health
Report
The Internet is a network of networks with no single owner or manager. As a
result there has always been a lack of high level information on the status
and performance of the Internet as a whole. Internet Health Report from
Keynote Systems provides network engineers and corporate website managers a
unique service to help monitor and diagnose the Internet.
Internet Mail Consortium
IMC posts information about all the Internet mail standards and technologies
and is the host of numerous mailing lists and archives, some of which are
for work being done in the IETF.
Internet Registries
African Regional Internet Registry
http://www.afrinic.org
American Registry for Internet Numbers ARIN
http://www.arin.net
Asia Pacific Network Information Center APNIC
http://www.apnic.net
Latin American and Caribbean IP Address Regional Registry LACNIC
http://www.lacnic.net
Public Interest Registry (PIR) was created to manage the .ORG registry
http://www.pir.org
Réseaux IP Européens Network Coordination Centre RIPE NCC
http://www.ripe.net
IP Tables
Tutorial
The aim of the iptables-tutorial is to explain iptables in a complete and
simple way. The iptables-tutorial is currently rather stable, and contains
information on all the currently available matches and targets (in kernel),
as well as a couple of complete example scripts and explanations. It
contains a complete section on iptables syntax, as well as other interesting
commands such as iptables-save and iptables-restore.
IPv6 - IPv6.org |
IPv6forum.com |
playground.sun.com
An Introduction to IPv6 by Charles P Mauch
Introduction to IPv6
This Guide was designed to introduce the reader to some of the major changes
in IPv6. It focuses on theory rather than on implementation.
Internet Protocol Version 6 -
Microsoft
Support for Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), a new suite of standard
protocols for the network layer of the Internet, is built into the latest
versions of Windows. IPv6 is designed to solve many of the problems of the
current version of IP (known as IPv4) with regard to address depletion,
security, autoconfiguration, extensibility, and more. Its use will also
expand the capabilities of the Internet to enable a variety of valuable and
exciting scenarios, including peer-to-peer and mobile applications. This
site contains links to a variety of resources on IPv6 technology and its
support in the current versions of Windows.
ISC.org Internet Systems
Consortium
ISC was originally founded as Internet Software Consortium, Inc., in 1994 to
continue the work of maintaining and enhancing BIND following in the
footsteps of U. C. Berkeley, Digital Equipment Corp., and Vixie Enterprises.
BIND was then (and is now) an essential component of the Internet's
infrastructure, and the founders (Paul Vixie, Carl Malamud, and Rick Adams)
felt very strongly that BIND's continued support and enhancement should be
managed and funded by an independent entity. IANA (Jon Postel, 1943-1998)
designated ISC as a root name server operator (first NS.ISC.ORG, then
F.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) so that we could properly support the use of BIND by
root name servers. Over the years a number of additional software systems
have either found refuge at ISC (INN, Lynx) or were created by ISC (DHCP,
OpenReg) to better support the Internet's infrastructure. We have also
expanded our operational activities beyond root name service, to include
Internet hosting facilities for other open source projects (NetBSD, XFree86,
kernel.org), secondary name service for more than 50 toplevel domains, and a
DNS OARC (Operations, Analysis and Research Center) for monitoring and
reporting of the Internet's Domain Name System.
ISP Contact List Subpoena List for Information Service Providers
This list is furnished and updated monthly by
Forensics
Web. It contains a variety of ISPs and similar information services,
specifically, contacts at the legal departments for service of subpoena,
court orders, and search warrants. An additional resource is the Library of
Congress’ Directory of ISP Agents which is maintained or use in copyright
matters and can be found at
http://www.loc.gov/copyright/onlinesp/list/index.html.
MaxMind GeoIP
MaxMind GeoIP can help locate internet visitors. Analyze web logs to locate
clients, geo-target banner ads, detect credit card fraud, auto-select
country on forms, prevent password sharing and abuse of service, and display
native language and currency. Obtain the Country, Region, City, Latitude,
and Longitude of any IP address. MaxMind offers a number of methods for
accessing MaxMind GeoIP, including APIs for C, Perl, PHP, Java, Python,
Ruby, C#, Apache, as well as web services. APIs are Open Source and we offer
GeoIP Standard Country for free. The C API contains geoipupdate, a program
for our clients to automate the download of GeoIP Premium Country updates.
Netcraft Web
Server Query
Netcraft has developed a service which examines a network connected to the
Internet and reports back to you which hosts are visible and what protocols
and services they make available to the Internet at large. It then probes
the available services for vulnerabilities including mis-configurations and
erroneous software versions. Access to information analyzing the
vulnerabilities and support by internet mail are included as standard.
NetGeo
The Internet Geographic Database
NetGeo is a database and collection of Perl scripts used to map IP addresses
and AS numbers to geographical locations. CAIDA is developing this system
for use in network visualization/analysis tools. It is available for use on
the web, though subject to rate limiting. The source and database, however,
are not available for download at this time.
NSI
Whois
Network Solutions WHOIS database for Domain Name, IP Address, NIC Handle,
and Nameserver queries.
Open
Proxy Problem
Internet2 Members Meeting - Arlington VA, Wednesday, April 9th, 2003
Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.
Director, User Services and Network Applications
University of Oregon Computing Center
Ping Plotter
Ping Plotter is a network troubleshooting and diagnostic tool. It uses a
combination of trace route, ping, and whois to collect data quickly - and
then allows you to continue to collect data over time to give you the
information you really need to identify problems (both short-term and
long-term trends).
Port Numbers - Commodon.com
Port Numbers -
Dave's List From List
of List
Port Numbers - Firewall Forensics - Robert Graham
Firewall Forensics (What am I seeing?) This document explains what you see
in firewall logs, especially what port numbers means. You can use this
information to help figure out what hackers are up to. This document is
intended for both security-experts maintaining corporate firewalls as well
as home users of personal firewalls.
Port
Numbers - IANA Site
Updated by IANA, a comprehensive list of port numbers divided into three
ranges: Well Known from 0-1023, Registered from 1024-49151, and Dynamic or
Private from 49152-65535.
Port
Numbers - Internet Storm Center Port Reports
Shows current activity (from DShield) in a customizable format, official
assignments, trojans and alternate uses, vulnerabilities associated with the
port, and allows comments to be added by readers to quickly share new
information.
Port
Numbers - Neohapsis Site
Port Numbers - Network ICE
List of frequently seen TCP and UDP ports and what they mean. The goal of
this port table is to point to further resources for more information.
Port
Numbers - Requirements for Microsoft Windows Server System
Q832017
Port
Numbers - Resource Links
Port Numbers
- Search Tool
Port Numbers - Special Applications by Practically Networked
Port
Numbers - Trojan List by DosHelp
Intrusion and attack reporting center specific to trojan and remote access
service ports. The following ports should be considered by routing
teams/administration as hostile ports and either closed, filtered or
monitored since they are mostly used for Trojan and intrusion programs.
Port Numbers - Trojan List by Dark-E
Port Numbers - Trojan List by
G-Lock Software
Port Numbers - Trojan List by SANS
Port
Numbers - Trojan List by Simovits
The table shows examples of existing trojans and ports being used. The lower
ports are often used by trojans that steals password and either mail the
passwords to attackers or hide them in FTP-directories. The higher ports are
often used by Remote Access trojans that can be reached over the network.
Port
Numbers - Whitehats List
Welcome to the advanced reference archive of current heuristics for network
intrusion detection systems! This comprehensive database of network attack
"signature" information can dynamically create and export signature strings
that are compatible with IDS software such as Snort, Dragon Sensor,
DefenseWorx, Pakemon, or Shoki. Network and System administrators can use
the arachNIDS signatures to detect attacks against their networks. Also,
security professionals have often found arachNIDS useful in researching
network vulnerabilities.
Reverse IP
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Whois program searches ARIN´s
database to locate information on networks, autonomous system numbers (ASNs),
network-related handles, and other related Points of Contact (POCs).
RFC Editor Site
Request for Comments (RFC) Official Internet Protocol Standards Editor Site
is updated daily.
SPAM Resources:
See our Alerts Anti-Spam Groups Section.
TCP/IP
Suite
The Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) originally developed
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) to interconnect
various defense department computer networks. The Internet, an international
Wide Area Network, uses TCP/IP to connect government and educational
institutions across the world. TCP/IP is also in widespread use on
commercial and private networks.
TCP
Transmission Control Protocol by NetworkSorcery.com
See also NetworkSorcery.com
IP Protocol Suite.
Traceroute from MIT
UDP traceroute from MIT's server jis.mit.edu.
Traceroute
Network Test
List of access points by Webmasters.com.
TrusTic - Spam Block List
Unwanted email, or spam, is a growing problem. Trustic is dedicated to
solving this problem by providing an accurate and complete registry of
trusted email servers. Trust is based on the recommendations of the
community of Trustic members.
twURLed World
"twURLed World" is our term for how the WWW looks when profiled and
displayed using twURL's classifying, filtering, and reporting features. The
twURLed World adds value to URL lists by highlighting important features of
the collection and providing a true "topic web" of keyword, site/URL,
inter-link, heuristic valuation, and author rating. In technical terms, URLs
are collected (usually by powerful metasearchers), input to twURL as HTML or
other URL lists, clustered using text analysis algorithms, reorganized into
hierarchical outlines at the Windows interface, triaged (deleting redundant
or off-topic URLs), automatically browsed (for collection author approval
and rating), and output in various HTML formats. These decision support
functions using a "URL Explorer" interface model makes filtering large
collections of URLs less labor intensive and truly intellectually
challenging. Just as 3x5 note cards and topic outlines were key tools for
college term papers, topic-specific webs are a new form of scholarly and
business investigation.
Visual Route
Server
This Visual Route Server provides a graphical traceroute from its server in
Dulles, VA. to any other network device you choose.
W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium was created in October 1994 to lead the World
Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote
its evolution and ensure its interoperability.
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