Tools and Add-ons

Downloads

	Additional Plug-ins Plug-ins not included with the standard installation. Details...
	Simple DNS Plus API for .NET and COM This is a code library which greatly simplifies and streamlines programming with DNS data. It makes it possible to deal with DNS data as simple objects and eliminates the need to work with and understand the intricacies of DNS master files (a.k.a. zone files). This can be used from any .NET or COM application or web-site including ASP.NET, classic ASP, PHP, VB.NET, C#, Delpi, VBScript, JScript, etc. It can even be used on a separate computer (controlling Simple DNS Plus remotely). For more details, see the included help file, also available on-line. Click here to download "sdnsapi-setup.exe" (662 KB) System requirements: - Simple DNS Plus v. 4.00.06 or later (not necessarily on the same computer) - Windows 98/2000 or later - .NET Framework 2.0 (automatically installed if missing) NOTE: Above download is version 1.1 build 2 released on March 13th 2008.
	Punycode / IDN library for .NET 2.0 Use this to convert international domains names in your own .NET applications and ASP.NET web-sites. For more details click here. NOTE: The same functionality is included with the Simple DNS Plus API for .NET and COM above. Click here to download "idnlib.dll" (28 KB) System requirements: - Windows 98/2000 or later - .NET Framework 2.0
	Punycode / IDN conversion code for classic ASP Use this to convert international domains names in your own classic ASP web-sites. Click here to download "idn-convert-asp.zip" (3 KB) System requirements: - Microsoft IIS / Personal Web Server with ASP scripting enabled
	Punycode / IDN conversion tool (windows desktop tool) When entering IDNs (domain names with international characters) into non-IDN aware software (web-server, FTP-server, mail-servers, etc), you must enter the punycode encoded form of the domain name. For more on this, see KB1032. Use this tool to convert IDNs to punycode. Click here to download "idnconvert.exe" (84 KB) System requirements: - Windows 98/2000 or later - .NET Framework 2.0 Please note: We also provide an on-line version of this tool.
	MS DNS Registry to boot file Migrating from Microsoft NT4 DNS server ? Use this tool to create a boot file based on the Microsoft DNS server zone information in the registry, and then import... For more details click here. Click here to download "xregboot.exe" (32 KB) System requirements: - Windows NT4 Server
	DNS Blacklist Editor Freeware tool for editing IP based DNS blacklist files (DNSBL/RBL). Also compiles data files for the Simple DNS Plus DNS Blacklist plug-in. For more details click here. Click here to download "dnsbledit.exe" (74 KB) System requirements: - Windows 98 / 2000 or later - .NET Framework 2.0

On-line Tools

	Remote DNS Look Up On-line tool to test your DNS server remotely. Click here to begin
	Trace DNS Delegation On-line tool to test your domain name delegation. Click here to begin
	IDN / Punycode Conversion On-line tool to convert international domains names to punycode. Click here to begin
	GPS coordinates in DNS 1. On-line tool to lookup GPS coordinates for a domain name and show location on a map. Click here to begin 2. On-line map tool to find GPS coordinates for use in your own LOC-records. Click here to begin
	Private IPv6 address range generator On-line tool to generate your own unique private IPv6 address range. Click here to begin
	Secondary DNS server exchange Need someone to host secondary DNS for your domains? Use www.ns2exchange.com to "swap" with someone else in the same situation.

Related JH Software products

	ns2service.net Secondary DNS service for backup and redundancy (based on Simple DNS Plus of course) See www.ns2service.net
	Simple Failover Use this software to automatically update your DNS records to point to a backup web-server in case the primary web-server fails. See www.simplefailover.com

Recommended 3rd party tools

	Helm v. 3.2 / Simple DNS Plus v. 5.1 interface Click here to download "helm32sdns51.zip" (41 KB) See "readme.htm" in zip file for instructions. Please post any questions at http://forums.webhostautomation.com/showthread.php?t=24812 This interface was created by Mr. Warren Ashcroft with Red Fox Hosting
	Dynamic Update Tester A great Windows tool for testing a DNS server's dynamic DNS update configuration - including TSIG signed updates. See http://noeld.com/programs.asp?cat=dstools#dynup
	DNSreport.com A great on-line tool to check that your domain registration and your DNS server is setup and working correctly. See www.dnsreport.com
	intoDNS.com Similar to DNSreport.com (see above). Not quite as many functions and report details, but unlike DNSreport.com, this one is free. See www.intodns.com
	NameBargain.com All our domain names are registered with NameBargain.com (subsidiary of Register.com). They support IDNs (internationalized domain names) and have a nice and simple management web-site which has everything we ever needed from a registrar. Unlike many other registrars, NameBargain.com have "advanced" but essential functions directly available on their web-site, such as registering and modifying DNS server entries (glue records on TLD servers). We also like their plain and simple checkout process (no 10 steps with add-on "choices" like a certain other low rate registrar). And perhaps most of all, we like their price; $8.88 per domain per year. See www.namebargain.com
If you have created a tool, utility, add-on, etc. which is useful with Simple DNS Plus and you would like it to be listed here, please contact us at .