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0 pointspul1mo ago0 comments

There are a ton of online DNS tool sites, MxToolbox being one of the largest.

I like the idea of evolution (diversity + selection) applied here. Many people building it differently and letting the market decide what's most useful.

My take on this space is making it a browsable graph instead of 'just' a collection of lookup tools. The internet _is_ a graph, and it often makes sense to inspect linked resources (Domain name -> name server -> IP address, for example).

As for the longer-term vision, I'd like to make this graph as complete as possible. It now only has DNS-related tools, but adding ASNs, BGP data, hosting providers, etc. would make the existing tools more useful with every addition.

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esseph1mo ago

Have you considered that this tool is also useful to attackers?

pulOP1mo ago

Yes. Ultimately nearly any tool can be used for good can also be used nefariously.

Internet infrastructure data is inherently open. I'm just presenting it in a more useful way. So any motivated actor can access it regradless.

In any case, exposing your IP during these lookups is bad operational security for them. So I would assume they'd prefer not to use Wirewiki.

All that to say: I don't feel conflicted about making these tools.

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