-
October 22nd, 2010, 06:03 PM
#1
What's up with Sam Spade?
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.
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers
-
October 22nd, 2010, 06:56 PM
#2
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
HTH
-
October 22nd, 2010, 10:17 PM
#3
Originally Posted by nihil
Please do not forget that Spade 1.14 is 10 years old
What would that be? 40 dog years?
I like to tell clients one computer year is four dog years.
Another one bytes the dust, eh?
“Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” — Will Rogers
-
October 23rd, 2010, 09:42 AM
#4
That would depend on your dog, your computer, and what you use it for
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:
server died. Waiting on new hardware
I guess the old one reached its quota of dog years?
-
October 23rd, 2010, 12:53 PM
#5
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.
Parth Maniar,
CISSP, CISM, CISA, SSCP
*Thank you GOD*
Greater the Difficulty, SWEETER the Victory.
Believe in yourself.
-
October 23rd, 2010, 01:48 PM
#6
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.
-
October 23rd, 2010, 02:50 PM
#7
Just out of curiosity, what was Sam Spade capable of that other whois websites didn't do?
-
October 23rd, 2010, 03:49 PM
#8
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
Last edited by nihil; October 23rd, 2010 at 04:20 PM.
-
October 23rd, 2010, 09:28 PM
#9
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!
-
October 24th, 2010, 07:37 AM
#10
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
Similar Threads
-
By corsair1447 in forum Network Security Discussions
Replies: 6
Last Post: February 18th, 2005, 09:16 AM
-
By U_caNt_KiD_M3 in forum The Security Tutorials Forum
Replies: 2
Last Post: January 18th, 2005, 08:10 AM
-
By Learnin in forum Newbie Security Questions
Replies: 13
Last Post: August 21st, 2003, 01:55 AM
-
By str34m3r in forum AntiOnline's General Chit Chat
Replies: 23
Last Post: July 3rd, 2002, 10:42 AM
-
By preacherman481 in forum AntiOnline's General Chit Chat
Replies: 3
Last Post: May 19th, 2002, 09:38 PM
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
|
|