Sidebar: Other Tools

strobe - contains Julian Assange's (aka Proff) superoptimized TCP port surveyor. The official distribution is ftp://suburbia.apana.org.au/pub/users/proff/original/ \ strobe.tgz.

iss.sh - Christopher Klaus's Internet Security Scanner v1.21. The official distribution is ftp://ftp.iss.net/pub/iss/iss121.shar.

traceroute.c - Van Jacobson's well-known traceroute program. The offical distribution is in ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/.

nuke - sends ICMP "host unreachable" packet to specified hosts, posted periodically to the Usenet alt.2600 newsgroup.

nfs shell - shell by Leendert van Doorn (leendert@cs.vu.nl) that provides access to NFS filesystems.

ypx - transfers NIS maps beyond a local network by Rob J. Nauta (rob@wzv.win.tue.nl) posted to the Usenet alt.sources newsgroup.

bootparam - can be used to determine default routers and other information about boot servers (SunOS proprietary code).