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
Check a domain →
⌗
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
Open the subnet calculator →
⛨
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
Open the SSL checker →
⌁
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 the DNS lookup →
⊞
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
Open the port 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
Open the status 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"
Open the email auth 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
Open the propagation checker →
⌸
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
Open the MAC lookup →
⚡
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
Open the power calculator →
◍
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
Open the cooling estimator →
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.