The network console · probes, links, names & the wire
The network
is alive.
The whole console in one page, in both editions. A probe that takes any domain or IP and reports what a browser can actually learn — DNS, the registry, round-trip timing, who owns the address block. A global test across six continents. Short links that work the moment you make them. A domain lab that generates names and asks DNS about each one. A password bench, a live news wire, and the sixty-one names for sale.
What it will not do is dress a guess up as a measurement. A browser cannot send ICMP, so the ping here is an HTTPS round trip and says so. The network path panel is a sketch of a typical route, labelled as a sketch — everything else on the page is measured live, from your connection, at the moment you ask.
Runs live on every load, against different targets each time. Nothing simulated, nothing cached.
DNS over HTTPS · RDAP registries · live HTTPS timing · six continents · working 301s · the live wire
The probe
One target, the whole file.
Give it a domain or an address. It finds your own public IP first, so the path has two ends, then resolves the target, asks the registry for the record, times five round trips, and names the network that answers.
NETLINK probe
Source IP and reverse DNS, A-record resolution, the registry record (registrar, dates, nameservers), five timed HTTPS round trips, and the owner of the target's address block.
The global test
Is it you, or is it the internet?
Two sweeps, both real requests from your own connection. The continental sweep works through a fixed roster of about eighty-five major sites, continent by continent, and rates each. The ultra-random sweep shuffles a hundred-site pool and takes fifty — a different fifty, in a different order, every run.
Global probe
Each site is resolved over DNS-over-HTTPS, then asked for its front page with a six-second budget. A site that answers is timed; one that does not is reported as unreachable from here — which may be the site, or may be your network. The rating weighs both.
Tiny URLs
A short link that stays short forever.
Paste something long and get labs.llc/labluxa/code back — codes start at three characters and grow only when the space fills. Links are written to the Network Labs store, count their clicks, and redirect the instant they are made. No queue, no approval step.
Shortener
Codes are checked for availability before they are claimed, so every link is unique. Nothing is queued — the link is written to this laboratory's own store and redirects the moment it is made.
The password bench
Seven ways to make a password.
Fully random, three words, mnemonic, Markov chains, pronounceable, leet-substituted, or grown from a root word of your own. Everything is drawn from the browser's cryptographic generator and nothing leaves the page — there is no server on the other end of this bench.
Password lab
The domain lab
Names, made and asked about.
Give it a word — or nothing at all — and it makes ten names across the endings you pick, then asks DNS about each one. A name with records is registered; a name without is probably free, and it is reported exactly that carefully. The full laboratory, with the registries asked directly, is DomainChaos.
Name generator
Checked over DNS-over-HTTPS only — quick and free, but DNS is not the registry: a registered name with no records still looks free from here. "Probably free" means exactly that.
The live wire
What the network is talking about.
The front page of Hacker News, fetched live when you ask for it — the fastest honest read of what the technical internet is looking at right now. Every headline links to its discussion.
Network intelligence
Domains for sale
Sixty-one names, each with a job in mind.
The sale book, card by card — every name links to an offer email, and the storefront with checkout lives at Buy Domains.
Stay in the loop
The occasional dispatch.
Probe results worth repeating, new instruments, names newly for sale. An address, nothing else, and it goes to the same subscriber book the rest of labs.llc writes to.
Subscribe
One address, no name required. Unsubscribe is one click in any dispatch.
About
One page, four instruments.
The Network console rebuilt on the labs.llc paper system, in both editions, with every instrument of the old dark console carried over and the measurements kept honest: the probes, the global tests, working short links, the domain lab, the password bench, the live wire, the sale book and the subscriber card. The probes run entirely in your browser; the short links live in the Network Labs store next door, and the subscriber book is the site's own.