China blocks serversniff.net

Maybe this is something we shouldn't be proud of: Chinese authorities block serversniff completely at their "great firewall of china" - even a few totally passive vhosts with a few pics and texts sitting on serversniff's ip-address get blocked by chinese censorship.


Check yourself here.

Language-Flags and a new check

Occasiónally we see english users referring to the german version of Serversniff and vice versa, germans using the english version. Both versions are functionally identic for most of hour language-specific stuff is stored in a language-file. I added a language-button next to the logo - maybe this will help people getting serversniff in a language that fits their needs best.

I can't really say that i had a lazy weekend, but i ended up throwing together another check: DNS-Report will do a few checks on all nameservers that are in charge for a domain. Basically this is a fraction of Scott Perrys great dnsreport.com - but with added zonetransfer-functionallity. We'll add more functionality some day, doing cache-checks and stuff you won't really find on other sites.

tom

New: Filesearch

It's a sunny sunday and i burned my back yesterday working outside building a wooden house for the kids. Time for an indoor-day and a few words.
We recently released a new script sitting in the webserver-part of serversniffs menu: FILE-SEARCH.
FileSearch is a companion to our FILE-INFO: Imagine you want to see all .DOCs on a webserver and you even want to have a look if there is any interesting stuff hidden in these files.
Have a look at this demo showing DOCs on blogspot-blogs.
This script (ab)uses major search-engines. You scriptkids might end up seeing nothing if you (ab)use it too often searching for sites hosting phpBB-security-holes.

I limited the script to 100 results. Drop me a friendly line if (and why!) you feel that this number is too low for your personal needs and i might tell you the secret switch to increase the max-result-count to googles maximum of 1.000 results.

tom.

New AS-Lookup

Serversniff offers a new script and API-script doing lookups for the Autonomous-System of an IP or hostname.

Backend for this script is currently team cymrus very fine AS-Lookup - this should be fine unless we see a really huge demand for this. We used to operate a pwhois-like BGP-Parser that offered a bit more information, but the work/requestcount-ratio brought us to drop this service. Finally, we brought it back on using the cymru-backend.

tom

Back to the net

The database is back, t-offline was kind enough to send a technician fixing the DSL-line. Seems that the DSL-Splitter died. I still think about a colocation in a datacanter for database-machine.
The database is currently readonly. I took the offline-time to do some database-maintenance and found a bad block in a 17GB-sized table.

I'm working to identify the affected rows and will then decide wehter to restore the old backup or restore all but the affected rows.

cheers

tom

Serversnoffline

Deutsche Telekom is still on strike. No technician yet, day 7 without phone, dsl and internet. Did i mention that i just hate monopolist-companys?

No real wonder, that they are the owners of t-offline.de:

Domain:      t-offline.de
Nserver:     support.mesch.dtag.de
Nserver:     pns.dtag.de
Nserver:     secondary006.dtag.net
Status:      connect
Changed:     2007-03-06T22:35:34+01:00

[Holder]
Type:         ORG
Name:         Deutsche Telekom AG, Domainmanagement
Address:      Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140
Pcode:        53113
City:         Bonn
Country:      DE
Changed:      2005-06-07T10:29:07+02:00

[Admin-C]
Type:         PERSON
Name:         Marion Schoeberl
Address:      Deutsche Telekom AG, Domainmanagement
Address:      Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 140
Pcode:        53113
City:         Bonn
Country:      DE
Changed:      2004-08-24T10:10:06+02:00

[Tech-C]
Type:         PERSON
Name:         Wolfgang Linke
Organisation: T-Systems CSM GmbH
Address:      Feldstr. 34
Pcode:        59872
City:         Meschede
Country:      DE
Phone:        +49 291 90227 7575
Fax:          +49 291 90227 7609
Email:        domain@mesch.telekom.de
Changed:      2006-01-25T10:52:53+01:00

[Zone-C]
Type:         PERSON
Name:         Wolfgang Linke
Organisation: T-Systems CSM GmbH
Address:      Feldstr. 34
Pcode:        59872
City:         Meschede
Country:      DE
Phone:        +49 291 90227 7575
Fax:          +49 291 90227 7609
Email:        domain@mesch.telekom.de
Changed:      2006-01-25T10:52:53+01:00

Frustrated,

tom

t-offline

Parts of Serversniff.net are offline. Lightning stroke friday evening.

The Domain-Database and some Utilities are hosted at my attic - a diskarray and a desktop-pc running beteween stored camping-equipment, Skates, old books and old electronics and cables, all connected via DSL, operated by german monopolist-telco Deutsche Telekom.

I live in a rural area with occasional thunderstorms and lightning strikes near my house every now and then. I might have got a bad line: Whenever a lightning strikes near my line, i'm offline. No Phone, no DSL, no Internet. It's dead, Jim.

No, don't even think about Telekom monitoring the lines functionality. You'll have to contact their callcenter - by phone or internet. If you're lucky, you get a nice phone-computer, and after repeating "STÖRUNG" again and again unless the shitty machine understands, you will hear that all lines are busy. I had this Friday, i had this Saturday, i had this Sunday - about a hundred calls, unless i finally got through sunday afternoon.

The phone-computer-odyssee continues: you have to enter your phone-number twice. Again, you have to confirm the number by yelling YESYESYES and you have to confirm the AreaCode by yelling YESYESYES and then you get a nice lady that is able to tell you, yeah, the line is dead ("lady, thats why I am calling!!"), and yeah, she will appoint this to a technician, but , oh well, Deutsche Telekom is on strike. Yeah, Tuesday morning.

It'll be like it was the times before: The technican will replace a fuse in the local switch-unit, call in to say that everything's fine again, and the familiy will have phone and internet again.

I do pay around €100 a month for phone and internet - this is defintely not the service i expect for ~1.000 Bucks a year - but since Telekom is still the only one to provide infrastructure where i live, things will stay like this until i find a place to colocate serversniffs backend for electricity-costs only. If you can offer space (no need for a rack, just around 1 MBit connectivity) you're welcome to drop me a mail at thomas.springer@serversniff.net.

Until then you might experience a few outages during thunderstorm-season in our german summer. If you're annoyed by the outage, please keep in mind: It's a free service.

tom