• Internet Performance Measurement and Analysis (IPMA) project - by Merit Network, Inc.
• Internet Health Report - by Digital Daze, similar to Internet Wx, but from a different perspective!

• UUNET Network Status
• NOC Monitor
• NOC Contact List

• DIGEX MAE-East++ Looking Glass - Query access list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened paths, environmental, flap-statistics, mroute summary, ping and trace
• DIGEX MAE-West Looking Glass - Query access list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened paths, environmental, flap-statistics, mroute summary, ping and trace
• DIGEX Sprintnap Looking Glass - Query access list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened paths, environmental, flap-statistics, mroute summary, ping and trace
• DIGEX PAIX Looking Glass - Query access list, bgp, bgp summary, dampened paths, environmental, flap-statistics, mroute summary, ping and trace
• GetNet Traceroute - from Phoenix, AZ, includes links to other provider's traceroutes
• Lyceum Internet Advanced Routing Info - Includes bgp, bgp summary, ping and traceroute
• io.com - Traceroute from Sprintlink
• Yahoo!
• NTRnet - from Alter.Net
• Boardwatch - index of traceroute web servers
• traceroute.org
• tracert.com - check your web page on the speed meter
• Sites that Traceroute back to your current IP
  • Malch.com - via best.net
  • Wiskit.com - via rain.net in Portland, OR (full network diagnosis)
  • MIT
  • Sitka.Triumf.ca - comprehensive table of network information

• Multithreaded Routing Toolkit - "The MRT project is researching new routing software architectures, protocols and tools. Software developed to date includes multi-protocol IPv4/IPv6 routing daemons and routing analysis/simulation tools. MRT software is in active use providing stress testing of commercial routers, collecting and analyzing Internet routing traffic for researchers, and serving as the primary routing software connecting networks to the Internet and the 6Bone."

• Network Monitoring Programs - by the Division of Computer Research and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, it is a list of programs that gathers information from the network or improve the security of the network.
• Net Tools and Virus Information - includes finger, ping, DNS query, host, NS lookup, whois, trace route and spam resolve

• BotSpot - the list of all internet bots
• Webopedia - the computer dictionary for internet terms and technical support
• Internetworking Terms and Acronyms - comprehensive dictionary to Internet connectivity
• WCI Virus Information - Wonder CA virus updates - includes comprehensive descriptions

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