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Network & Monitoring Tools

Here you'll find all the free network and domain tools we've built so far — from the DNS Propagation Checker and WHOIS Lookup to the SSL Checker. Handy for admins, support teams, and anyone who needs to quickly check a server, domain, or email configuration.

Website Down Checker

Check whether a website is online, slow, or offline: HTTP status, response time, and the cause of errors such as DNS issues, timeouts, TLS errors, or 5xx responses.

Built by Eric Mager

DNS Propagation Checker

Check whether a DNS record has propagated worldwide by querying 20 public resolvers simultaneously.

Built by Jakub Martyniak

Website Security Check

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Check a website for known vulnerabilities and outdated software: detect PHP, web server, OpenSSL and CMS versions, compare them with current releases and security advisories, and identify missing security headers. Also includes a self-check for the operating system, databases and pending updates on your own server.

Built by Florian Galz

DNS Lookup

Look up a domain’s A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS, CNAME, SOA and CAA records, plus Reverse DNS for any IP.

Built by Luca Stanek

Domain Checker

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Check whether your desired domain is available across all offered extensions, with prices and available alternatives.

Built by Florian Galz

WHOIS Lookup

Check a domain's registrar, registration date, expiration date, and nameservers.

Built by Jakub Martyniak

Email DNS Health Checker

Check a domain's SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX at a glance, with clear guidance.

Built by Jakub Martyniak

SPF, DKIM & DMARC Generator

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Generate SPF, DKIM and DMARC records for sending email from your domain: choose an email provider, configure your own servers and policy, generate a DKIM key in your browser and add everything directly to your ZAP-Hosting domain.

Built by Florian Galz

IP Blacklist Checker

Check whether an IP address or mail server is on spam blacklists (RBL/DNSBL) such as Spamhaus, Barracuda, and SpamCop, including reverse DNS and removal guidance.

Built by Luca Stanek

Subnet Calculator

Calculate the network address, broadcast address, subnet mask, and usable host range from a CIDR address, and convert between CIDR and IP ranges (IPv4 and IPv6).

Built by Jakub Martyniak

Subnetting exercises

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Practice subnetting with random exercises at three levels: determine the network address, broadcast address, host range and number of hosts, check your answers and view the solution step by step.

Built by Luca Stanek

OSI model

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Interactively learn the 7 layers of the OSI model: click layers, assign terms such as switch, ARP, or port 443, and explore animated encapsulation, a quiz, and a cheat sheet for the IHK exam.

Built by Justin Schuessler

TCP/IP model

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Interactively learn the 4 layers of the TCP/IP model (DoD model) according to RFC 1122, with OSI model mapping, animated encapsulation, a port quiz, and a cheat sheet.

Built by Justin Schuessler

What is my IP?

Display the public IP address, IPv4/IPv6 version, reverse DNS record, and approximate country.

Built by Jakub Martyniak

IP Location Lookup

Find the country, region, city, ISP/ASN, and reverse DNS for any IP address or domain. Results are checked against a locally stored geodatabase without sharing data with third parties.

Built by Luca Stanek

SSL Checker

Check an SSL/TLS certificate’s status, issuer, validity period, and expiration date at a glance.

Built by Sebastian Rademacher

Redirect Checker

Check a URL’s redirect chain hop by hop: status codes (301/302/307/308), HTTP headers, server IP, and response time for each redirect.

Built by Luca Stanek

Port Checker

Check whether specific ports are open on an IP or hostname—select a protocol or game instead of scanning all ports at once.

Built by Sebastian Rademacher

Common Ports & firewall commands

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Enter a port or service to learn what it does and copy ready-to-use firewall commands for ufw, iptables, nftables, firewalld and Windows. Includes the complete IANA port list and a port check.

Built by Justin Schuessler

MAC Address Lookup

Identify the manufacturer/vendor of a MAC address using its OUI against a locally bundled IEEE registry snapshot, without sharing data with third parties.

Built by Rugile Rutkauskaite

Speed test

Measure download, upload, and ping speeds to a ZAP-Hosting location.

Built by Julian Alker

Traceroute

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Trace the route from our locations to you (and back), with packet loss at each hop and a plain-language analysis.

Built by Julian Alker

Ping Test

Measure ping, jitter, and packet loss to all Game Server locations and get a recommendation for the best one.

Built by Marvin Kluck

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Brief answers about our free tools.

Eight free tools: DNS Propagation Checker, WHOIS Lookup, Email DNS Health Checker (SPF, DKIM, DMARC, MX), Subnet Calculator, “What Is My IP?”, SSL Checker, Port Checker and MAC Address Lookup. No account needed.

With the DNS Propagation Checker: it queries the same record across multiple public DNS resolvers at once and shows which return the new value and which still return the old one. Depending on the TTL, changes typically take anywhere from a few minutes to 48 hours to propagate everywhere.

The SSL Checker checks the certificate actually served for a domain: its expiration date and remaining validity, whether it has expired or is about to expire, and whether the hostname matches the certificate. This helps you spot when renewal is due.

Email delivery issues are often caused by missing or conflicting DNS records. The Email DNS Health Checker checks SPF, DKIM, DMARC, and MX for a domain at a glance and shows which record is missing or doesn't match the actual delivery setup.

With the MAC Address Lookup: enter a MAC address to identify its manufacturer/vendor using the OUI. It uses a locally bundled IEEE registry snapshot, so the address is not sent to third parties.

The subnet calculator uses an IP address and subnet mask or CIDR notation to calculate the network address, broadcast address, number of usable hosts and address range—handy for planning VLANs or firewall rules.

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