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Back in the late 90's, as a system administrator I saw a need to use some remote testing tools, but
most of these sites concentrated on only ping or traceroute, so I decided to conjur up some perl code
to do a number of different tests as well, over the years stuffs been added and taken away, even improved,
eventually I moved it to public access and it ran for many years under its.ausics.net, getting extensive
use by other sysadmins and network engineers, from other ISP's and ASP's as well.
During the late 2000's I think it was, I came across zonecheck, it did a lot of cool domain DNS based checks, but was written in ruby - which I knew nothing about (hehe still don't), but I managed to fudge it enough to make some tiny changes outside of the base code, this ran as a sub of ITS for a number of years, at some point later, I noticed the zonecheck.org was a parking page on a registrars site, Zonechecks author, if he did control it once (can't recall but I'm sure he was zonecheck.fr and never .org) allowed it to die off, since my investigation showed this registrar had it for a couple years, and he never returned my Emails and some time later (2013) I noticed the domain was still vacant so snapped it up, I liked the name and it seemed appropriate for everthing here. We're now in the tardis nearing the end of our journey, we've reached June 2021, most of the stuff on the main page remains relevant so needed no changes, but zonecheck was abandoned, and for some time replaced by zonemaster, a cleaner sleeker perl version (won't say I'm sad to see the back of the ruby one), I had been thinking about redesigning the website with a cleaner look for a while, so zonemaster appeared at the right time, I liked it, much cleaner, but although written in perl, it is heavily javascript dependant - it's only downside, but the end result is what you see. |