Using network tools

The Client Manager provides a graphical interface to the following commands:

• finger to find out information about a user.

• nslookup to find out an IP address from a hostname or a hostname from an IP address.

• ping to see if a host is alive.

• traceroute to trace the route taken by packets to reach a host.

• whois to look up a name in the Internet domain name directory service.

Finding information about a user

To find out more information about a user:

1. Select Tools → Finger in the Client Manager.

2. Enter the name of the user and click on Finger. To interrupt the query, click on Stop.

3. Click on Close to exit.

See also:

• finger(C)

Looking up a hostname or an IP address

To look up the IP address corresponding to a hostname, or the hostname corresponding to an IP address:

1. Select Tools → Host lookup in the Client Manager.

2. Enter the hostname or IP address of the host and click on Query. To interrupt the query, click on Stop.

3. Click on Close to exit.

See also:

• nslookup(TC)

Pinging other network hosts

To see if another network host is alive:

1. Select Tools → Ping in the Client Manager.

2. Enter the hostname or IP address of the host.

3. To change the interval in seconds between packets or the number of packets that will be sent, click on Options, change the default values and click on OK.

4. Click on Ping to start sending packets. To interrupt the sending of packets, click on Stop.

5. Click on Close to exit.

See also:

• ping(ADMN)

Tracing the route taken by network packets

To trace the route that network packets take to reach a host:

1. Select Tools → Trace route in the Client Manager.

2. Enter the hostname or IP address of the host.

3. To set various trace options, click on Options. To change the maximum time in seconds that your host will wait for a response, or to set the maximum number of hops before the trace will be terminated, click on Options, change the default values, and click on OK.

4. Click on Trace to start the trace. To interrupt the trace, click on Stop.

5. Click on Close to exit.

See also:

• traceroute(ADMN)

Looking up a name in the Internet domain name directory service

To find out more information about a domain, nameserver, or registrar that has an entry in the Internet domain name directory service:

1. Select Tools → Whois in the Client Manager.

2. Enter the name you wish to search.

3. To change the whois server (default is rs.internic.net), click on Options, enter the new server name, and click on OK.

4. Click on Query to start the query. To interrupt the query, click on Stop.

5. Click on Close to exit.

See also:

• whois(TC)