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Free Tools for Network Geeks

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Susan smith
Free Tools for Network Geeks

You will appreciate having access to free tools if you are an IT guru. This will help to keep you in the top of your shape.

Here are the available tools that will make you a webmaster and keep you on top of your game.

  1. NsLookup: This tool will make you provide a hostname and also make it possible for you to request for different type of DNS records.
  2. Traceroute: This is an important tool that makes it easy for you to know the path that will be taken by your request. This tool will help you in checking if your site is reachable or not, verifying there is a slow or unreachable server, and checking the host and location of a specific resource.
  3. URL Decode and Encode:The URL decode helps in standardizing a URL especially if it has been previously encoded and you want it to be visible in a human readable form. The URL encode on the other hand will be useful if you want special characters to be included in your URL. Encoding the URL will make it valid.
  4. Online Ping: This will help you in determining whether a server is responding to different request or not. You can check if a host is responding by providing a domain name or an IP name.
  5. IDN and Punycode Conversion: This is a useful tool because it will help you to convert non-English domain names into a punycode. This punycode is then supplied to the DNS server where it is the converted to the main domain name.
  6. HTTP Headers:Seeing the headers that are returned for a specific IP Address or domain through the web server is made possible with this tool. This is the perfect tool to troubleshoot any trouble you face with your HTTP connections. You can also use this tool to optimize links and also to check redirection.
  7. Email Checker:Become a master of your game with this tool as it will help you to not only check if an email is valid but also if it can be reached. The SMTP server is what helps in ensuring the emails are syntactically available and valid. This tool is very helpful especially if you want to identify all the false email in your checklist.
  8. DNS Lookup: With this tool, you will be able to retrieve domain records from your domain name. This tool acts as a diagnostic tool with which you will be able to check if there is a problem in the domain name server, especially if you are finding it difficult to return domain records. This will give you an idea of where to begin your troubleshooting
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