Network tools
This page lists various network tools. ping and ip are covered by Network configuration.
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Traceroute
Traceroute is a tool to display the path of packets across an IP network.
There are several implementations available:
- tracepath(8) from iputils (part of base)
- traceroute(8) from traceroute
- MTR — Combines the functionality of traceroute and ping into one tool.
Netcat
See also Wikipedia:Netcat.
- GNU Netcat — GNU rewrite of netcat, the network piping application.
- openbsd-netcat — TCP/IP swiss army knife. OpenBSD variant.
- https://packages.debian.org/sid/netcat-openbsd || netcat-openbsd[broken link: package not found]
Are more complex alternative is socat.
Whois
See also Wikipedia:WHOIS.
- whois — Intelligent WHOIS client.
- jwhois — An Internet Whois client
inetd
Arch Linux does not have inetd but you can instead use systemd or xinetd (xinetd).