Network tools

This page lists various network tools. ping and ip are covered by Network configuration.

Traceroute

Traceroute is a tool to display the path of packets across an IP network.

There are several implementations available:

tracepath(8) from iputils (required by base)
traceroute(8) from traceroute
MTR — Combines the functionality of traceroute and ping into one tool.

https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/ || mtr, mtr-gtk

Netcat

Whois

See also Wikipedia:WHOIS. Since the 28 January 2025, registrars are no longer required to offer a WHOIS service. See #RDAP for its replacement.

whois — Intelligent WHOIS client.

https://github.com/rfc1036/whois || whois

jwhois — An Internet Whois client

https://www.gnu.org/software/jwhois/ || jwhois^AUR

RDAP

Registration Data Access Protocol (STD 95) is a newer protocol that officially replaces the WHOIS protocol per ICANN's 2023 Global Amendments.

Note While gTLD registrars are required to implement RDAP as of the 03 February 2024, not all ccTLD do so. See the deployment dashboard on rdap.org for the list of ccTLD with and without RDAP support. For TLDs that do not implement RDAP, you should use #Whois instead.

OpenRDAP — Command line RDAP client implementation in Go.

https://www.openrdap.org/ || openrdap-client^AUR

inetd

Arch Linux does not have inetd but you can use systemd or xinetd (xinetd^AUR) instead.