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How do you see this positioned against something like MXToolbox? There seems to be a lot of overlap in features as it is today so I'm interested in your longer-
by BitsAndObjects 8mo ago
How do you see this positioned against something like MXToolbox? There seems to be a lot of overlap in features as it is today so I'm interested in your longer-term vision for wirewiki.
- pul 8mo agoThere are a ton of online DNS tool sites, MxToolbox being one of the largest. I like the idea of evolution (diversity + selection) applied here. Many people building it differently and letting the market decide what's most useful. My take on this space is making it a browsable graph instead of 'just' a collection of lookup tools. The internet _is_ a graph, and it often makes sense to inspect linked resources (Domain name -> name server -> IP address, for example). As for the longer-term vision, I'd like to make this graph as complete as possible. It now only has DNS-related tools, but adding ASNs, BGP data, hosting providers, etc. would make the existing tools more useful with every addition.
- esseph 8mo agoHave you considered that this tool is also useful to attackers?
- pul 8mo agoYes. Ultimately nearly any tool can be used for good can also be used nefariously. Internet infrastructure data is inherently open. I'm just presenting it in a more useful way. So any motivated actor can access it regradless. In any case, exposing your IP during these lookups is bad operational security for them. So I would assume they'd prefer not to use Wirewiki. All that to say: I don't feel conflicted about making these tools.