Network tools

Free, in your browser, no sign-up. These are the same engines that run inside the Kodura apps, so an answer here is the answer you get on your phone.

What runs in the browser

Domain check

One report on a domain: the website certificate, whether email from it can be faked, and the DNS basics. Where something needs fixing, it gives you the record to paste, with your mail provider filled in.

  • Certificate, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, nameservers, CAA and DNSSEC
  • Plain answers for the owner, full reports one click away

Subnet calculator

Paste a CIDR block, a subnet mask, or an entire ifconfig dump: it reads them all and works out the rest. No retyping octets into four little boxes.

  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • Reads Cisco configs, ifconfig, ip addr
  • Correct at /31 and /32, where many are not

SSL certificate checker

Reads the certificate chain exactly as your server sends it, with no silent repairs, so a missing intermediate shows up here even when the site looks fine in your browser.

  • Chain, expiry, hostname, protocols, cipher
  • Tells you which of two opposite causes you have
  • Explains the fix, not just the fault

DNS lookup

Queries Cloudflare and Google side by side and tells you whether they agree, which is how you catch a record that has propagated to one resolver and not the other.

  • A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME, SOA
  • Two resolvers compared, not one trusted
  • Runs entirely in your browser

Open port checker

Checks whether a TCP port is reachable from the public internet, and tells a refused connection apart from a filtered one, which is the half of the answer most checkers throw away.

  • Ten common services, plus your own ports
  • Refused vs timed out, explained
  • Flags databases and RDP exposed to the internet

HTTP status checker

Fetches a URL and says whose problem the answer is. A status code proves the network worked: the failures that really are the network do not have one.

  • Every hop of the redirect chain, with timings
  • Your side, their side, or genuinely the network
  • Headers that change the diagnosis, called out

SPF, DKIM and DMARC checker

Counts SPF's ten-lookup limit and shows which include spent it. A record can be perfectly valid and still fail every message once it goes over: this says whether yours has.

  • SPF, DKIM and DMARC in one pass
  • Resolves every include and counts the lookups
  • Separates "no record" from "record that cannot work"

DNS propagation checker

Asks two independent resolvers at once and shows the TTL on each answer, the number that actually says how much longer a stale answer can survive.

  • Two independent resolvers, side by side
  • TTL on every answer, not just the record
  • Disagreement shown plainly when they differ

MAC address lookup

Finds the manufacturer in the IEEE registry and reads the address itself. Many MAC addresses have no vendor at all, and that is a fact about the address rather than a gap in the data.

  • MA-L, MA-M and MA-S: not just the first three octets
  • Says why an address is unlisted, when it is
  • Every format, including Cisco's 001b.6384.45e6

Data center power calculator

Racks, rack density and a PUE become IT load, facility load and annual energy. It separates power from energy and installed capacity from actual draw, which is where published figures usually go wrong.

  • kW, MW, MWh and annual cost from one input
  • Shows what the PUE multiplier actually costs
  • Works backwards too: PUE from two meter readings

Cooling load and water use

An IT load becomes heat. This estimates the water needed to move that heat for all four cooling designs at once, with the energy each one costs alongside it.

  • kW to tons of refrigeration, and why that unit exists
  • Water consumed, labelled as consumed rather than withdrawn
  • Shows the trade: the dry designs draw more power

What runs here and what needs the app

A browser can do more networking than people expect, but not everything. Subnetting is pure arithmetic, so it runs on your own machine with nothing sent anywhere. DNS-over-HTTPS is a public API, so the lookup queries the resolvers directly from your browser. A TLS handshake needs a raw socket, so the SSL checker runs on our server.

A browser cannot send ICMP, which rules out ping, traceroute and path MTU discovery. Any web page offering those is measuring the path from its server, not from you, which is rarely the thing you wanted to know. Those live in Kodura Network Tools for iPhone and iPad, where they measure your actual connection.

Stuck on something specific? The writing works through the errors these tools are usually reached for.