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Trouble shooting tools

This page lists sites that are useful for external diagnosis of problems.

Sometimes it's useful to get a view from outside our network on the state of something.

DNS

• DNS Bajaj ("dns by-eye") is a useful tool for diagnosing DNS errors.

  http://www.zonecut.net/dns/

Network

• traceroute.org lists looking-glass pages for major ISPs.

  http://www.traceroute.org/#Australia as does Blue Moon Internet

  http://www.bluemoon.net/remtrace.html

Email

• Abuse.net mail relay testing checks that a mail server is not an open relay.

  http://www.abuse.net/relay.html