Revision History

Current release: 1.14

New in 1.14

S-Lang scripting
Programmable hotkeys
Configurable foreground text colour and font
Support for frames when crawling a website
Tab selection between subwindows
whois.crsnic.net redirection to handle new TLD registrars
Updated HTMLHelp documentation
Bugfixes. Lots of bugfixes.
Configurable background pattern or colour
Set local system time from SNTP server
Better email header parsing
Complaint letter composition
Toolbars split, so they can be placed independently
(Optional) flat IE4/5 style toolbars
Increase / decrease font size temporarily

New in 1.10

Pingcount is now preserved (finally...)
IP addresses written as numbers (eg 2546223882) are handled more elegantly (for IP block lookup, whois, DNS and RBL checks, anyway)
The background colour of the child windows is configurable
whois code changed to work around a bug in Internics whois server

New in 1.09

More robust handling of transient DNS errors
Specific error messages added for winsock errors

New in 1.08

whois code tweaked in an attempt to find out what internic broke
ORBS and ORCA DUL queries added to RBL query. My inclusion of these doesn't mean I recommend them for use as mail filters. I do recommend use of the RBL, but you should decide carefully before using the others
Bug that caused many menu items to vanish when no child windows were open fixed
RCPT TO: check added to the SMTP verify

New in 1.07

DHCP support for DNS server
Abuse.net abuse address lookup
RBL lookup
.jp whois now in English
HTTP/1.0 used for webcrawling (works with cheap-virtual domains)
Webbrowser supports HTTP/0.9, 1.0 & 1.1
Bugfixes, particularly for traceroute
Log window isn't shown unless it's used

New in 1.06

A few major bug fixes - closing a window whilst a slow traceroute is running shouldn't crash the program any longer
Some aesthetic improvements to the interface
Log files. There's the option to log results to four logfiles (two permanent, two for just the current session. Two for all results, two only for results copied to the log window)
More, improved tips of the day
A fast, graphical traceroute.

New in 1.05

Support for IP block lookups via whois.arin.net. This is a major update

New in 1.04

Tiny bugfix - prevents GPF on exit

New in 1.03

Another selection/copy bug removed. Previously it GPFed if you tried to copy less than one line
Closing a running traceroute window used to GPF occasionally. I've fixed one race condition that was causing the problem. If there are others I'm sure someone will let me know :-)
IP Block lookup now understands Internic redirection to APNIC
You can now finger a host, as well as an individual
Some problems with hotlinks in dig output (corrupted or blank hostnames) have been fixed
Dig support for GPOS (Geographical Position) fields has been added. It promises to be very cool if it works, but I've yet to find a host supporting GPOS fields, so I can't test it :-(

New in 1.02

Selection has had some bugs killed - it shouldn't crash on copy and paste now
Keyboard scrolling of windows
Automatic version update removed (sorry folks - I'm preparing for a general release, and my web server can't take the load of more than a few thousand people checking for updates)
About box upgraded - includes a check for current version button
Help updated

'dig -x' added

New in 1.01

SMTP Verify on toolbar
Some HtmlHelp fixes - it still works only on IE4 though

New in 1.00

Winhelp format as well as HTML help
Assorted bugfixes...
...and assorted new bugs - see the known bugs section

New in 0.99

Full selection (click, drag, cut, paste etc.)
Online help
Install, uninstall support
Configurable fonts
Slightly configurable colours (there's no way to configure them within the program, but they can be configured with regedit)
Better header analysis (strips quoting, handles broken headers pasted from netscape)
Many minor bugfixes

New in 0.98

Web browser. This doesn't try and render the HTML, but instead shows the raw http traffic. It doesn't tell the webserver anything, so is nice for poking around hostile websites. Pretty good for debugging cgi scripts too.
Web crawler. Will search a website for useful stuff, or download a copy to you local machine
Usenet cancel checker.
Keep alive.

New in 0.97

Paste into address box works
A couple of GPF problems fixed
Multiple nameservers don't break things

New in 0.96

Minor fix - can now access more than 2000 records in a zone transfer

New in 0.95

Slow window closing bug fixed
No more zombie processes
Text output optimised so it now displays long zone transfers without slowing to a halt
Should work under Win95 (I don't have access to a Win95 machine right now, so confirmation of this would be appreciated)
Smart paste now selectable
Can analyse email headers even if they've been forwarded and are prefixed by '>'

New in 0.94

No longer works under Win95. This wasn't intentional, and will be fixed in 0.95
whois links in IP block / whois output fixed
The memory corruption and crash caused by clearing the log has been fixed
Correct IP addresses shown for reverse DNS lookup
Whois is now somewhat smarter - if you try and whois an IP address or an IP prefix whilst the whois server is set to 'Magic' it'll do the right IPblock lookup instead.
Zombie processes are now killed at exit - this should solve a lot of problems. Later... But it still doesn't work. Microsofts runtime is beginning to really annoy.
Last vestiges of falcon removed - they're completely separate programs now.

New in 0.93

IP Block linewrap fixed
Copy to clipboard works
'Clear Log' fixed
Email validation fixed
Tip of the Day added
Version checking added

New in 0.92

Spammer shitlist updated
Bug workaround for multiple instantiations

New in 0.91

Bugfix. Major bug trying to whois unknown domains or domains in capital letters no longer hangs the program

New in 0.9

SMTP Relay check added
Option to save zone transfers to file instead of displaying them
Digs through registry to find nameserver
Scan for active ports on a range of addresses. Has options to scan for up to 720 different services on each system
SMTP VRFY and EXPN added to right-click menu
Dejanews profile added
Hard limit of no more than 1000 outstanding transactions, avoids problems of running out of memory on smaller machines

New in 0.82

Regex library replaced with one that works without crashing
Infinite loop on some received lines problem fixed
Save As... works

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