Been a long time user of Sam Spade 1.14, primarily for whois inquiries. Their website (www.samspade.org) is down and I don't get any returns anymore on my ip inquiries via the app. No big deal, I just do online whois, but Spade was convenient.
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Been a long time user of Sam Spade 1.14, primarily for whois inquiries. Their website (www.samspade.org) is down and I don't get any returns anymore on my ip inquiries via the app. No big deal, I just do online whois, but Spade was convenient.
The site says "back soon" but no indication of when the message was posted.
IIRC if you look at the top of the screen you will see a box with "MAGIC" in it?
Try changing that to Arin or whatever and see if it works.
I am guessing that "MAGIC" is some sort of compilation of domain registrars' information. It may be out of action or is now defunct.
Please do not forget that Spade 1.14 is 10 years old :eek:
HTH :)
What would that be? 40 dog years?Quote:
Originally Posted by nihil
I like to tell clients one computer year is four dog years.
Another one bytes the dust, eh?
That would depend on your dog, your computer, and what you use it for :D
Most of my kit is getting on for 10 years old and is perfectly adequate today. Having said that it was high end when I built it.
My Vista box is built with spares that were at least 8 years old apart from the 256MB video card.
I had another look at the SamSpade site and displayed the source. I found this:
I guess the old one reached its quota of dog years? :p:DQuote:
server died. Waiting on new hardware
From days of Windows XP when i started with Sam Spade. It is the first piece of software that gets installed on my machine - even before the AV or firewall.
On reflection I can see why the searches don't work as they are obviously conducted via the SamSpade website, and their server is down.
There was no indication of roughly when they expected to be up and running again.
Just out of curiosity, what was Sam Spade capable of that other whois websites didn't do?
Hi there Metguru,
A toolbox or compendium basically:
Ping
DNS Lookup
Who Is
IP Block
Dig
Traceroute
Finger
SMTP Verify
Web
Time
Blacklist
Abuse lookup
Scan Addresses
Crawl Website
Browse Web
Check Cancel
S-Lang Command
Decode URL
Parse e-mail headers
It saved a lot of hopping around from site to site :)
Thanks nihil,
I guess I didn't know what i was missing. And this was a downloadable tool? I've been to the website before, but all I've ever seen was the whois. I hope it comes back soon so I can look into this!
You are welcome metguru :)
If you want to download the application to have a look and be ready for when they commission their new server please go here:
http://http://majorgeeks.com/Sam_Spade_d594.html
;)
I seem to think that SAM SPADE had issues with some entity or they with SAM and the site shut down, never to return. Maybe that was something else.
Now I use http://www.dnsstuff.com
...think they had issues with Network Solutions. Or rather, vice versa. Something over accessing NS's whois server. Sam Spade results have been getting spotty the last few years.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinowuff
Another good site is http://geobytes.com/IpLocator.htm. There's links to the major whois databases on down the page. I'm fascinated by their locator feature.
...on the brighter side, Sam Spade's servers are back up and the app works again.
edit - oops, spoke too soon. Won't whois ip addresses. Domain names, ok.
hmm thats strange. I happened to check earlier today and it said Back Soon. I was hoping you were correct in saying that it's back up, but I checked again a minute ago and it still says back soon for me? Strange...
dnsstuff is great. learned about it from my college professor awhile back when i was still young :P
Hi BrokenCrow,Quote:
Originally Posted by brokencrow
The arrow won't work if and until the spade app is set to accept data from the newer ARIN (or NetSol, I don't remember) configuration. A way around this is, set the server to geektools and use the Whois on the sidebar. See attachments.
I actually found this website looking for a SS replacement or news of its return.
Jeff
Who cares how old it is. It's a great tool. And if their servers were still up it would work as good as the date it was written........zQuote:
Originally Posted by nihil
The arrow works fine on domain searches. It's IP searches that I'm interested in and that don't work anymoreQuote:
Originally Posted by OnThePike
And is there a way to 'set to accept data from the newer ARIN (or NetSol, I don't remember) configuration.'
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OLD thread Zar~
and TBH Nihill is old and also a great tool :D
I am actually probably the only one who D/Led SS and never bothered to use it :(
my bad
don't know how relevant this info is but here goes anyway:
">>> Last update of whois database: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:18:20 UTC <<<
NOTICE: The expiration date displayed in this record is the date the
registrar's sponsorship of the domain name registration in the registry is
currently set to expire. This date does not necessarily reflect the expiration
date of the domain name registrant's agreement with the sponsoring
registrar. Users may consult the sponsoring registrar's Whois database to
view the registrar's reported date of expiration for this registration."
the high side of huge H/D's you can keep everything, why i even have 114 stored on this drive ;-), but i don't think it's ethical to offer it