This can save a lot of time in discovering information about a network. NST can really speed this up with several automated reports. In just a few minutes it can give you a report for a domain that includes whois records, DNS details, MX records, blacklists, traceroute with geolocation, port scans, and more. You can find out a lot about a network by digging through it’s DNS entries, scanning hosts, doing whois lookups, etc. The only downside to this tool is that it’s only on Windows. It has a collection of active and passive discovery tools, various DNS tools, and some packet level tools. The value in most of this is that all the tools are in one place and it has automation to grab lots of information very quickly, though there are a few unique tools. It’s something of a network discovery tool and then some. I was first introduced to NetScanTools Pro by Laura Chappell of Chappell University, where she teaches about protocol analysis and Wireshark. Kirk Thomas is the founder of the company and you can find him on twitter as I’ve talked to him many times on Twitter and he is extremely helpful and very open to input from his customers. One of the tools I’ve used for years is NetScanTools Pro from NorthWest Performance Software. We all like tools (sometimes read “toys”).
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