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You may check communication with computer or look up if a host is online by executing a ping command. Windows does not provide graphical utility to do that, but has a command line tool. This software works just like command line ping.exe but has a configurable parameters screen and a nice graphical output. You may preset TTL - time to live of the ICMP packet to be sent, the size of the ICMP packet to send, number of ping requests, host name resolution, packet size. The software can run both using ICMP or WinSock. You may export ping resulat or print them out right from Network Ping.
Network Ping: http://www.filesland.com/download/nping.exe
MultiDNS: http://www.globesoft.com/bin/MDNS.exe
Globesoft MultiDNS forwards DNS resolution requests to a list of secondary DNS servers, one by one, until the request successfully has been carried out and the name has been resolved. If any of the secondary DNS servers respond, but fail to resolve the name, then Globesoft MultiDNS proceeds with the next server in the list.
The list of secondary DNS servers would be the list of DNS servers normally found in the adapter configuration. However, when using Globesoft MultiDNS, the adapter must be configured to use only the local DNS server, provided by Globesoft MultiDNS, and the DNS server list must be transferred to the configuration section of Globesoft MultiDNS.
MultiDNS can be installed on a laptop or on a server.
Typical scenarios where MultiDNS is used:
On end user laptops in conjunction with remote VPN, thus enabling remote users to access computers/servers on both networks by name
On servers or end user laptops that need to access multiple NAT segments that are connected via VPN or other private links. For example multiple disjoint AD structures. |