Tools and add-ons
Downloads
- Additional Plug-ins
Plug-ins not included with the standard installation. Details... - Filter Raw Log tool
Command line tool which parses a raw log file (.sdraw) from Simple DNS Plus (v. 5.0 and later), filters and summarizes the data, and writes the result to a text file as comma separated values (csv format). The data can be summarized either by zone, query name (qname), query type (qtype), request source IP address (fromip), or by hour.
For more information, download and source code click here. - Raw Log Library for .NET
A .NET library (.dll) which provides programmatic access (read-only) to raw log files (.sdraw) from Simple DNS Plus v. 5.0 and later.
This can be used for extracting and filtering DNS request information for statistics and other purposes.
The source code also serves as an example of how to access raw log files programmatically.
For more information, download and source code click here. - MsDnsExport tool - Export Boot file / Active Directory zones from a Microsoft DNS server
This tool is especially useful if you have a large number of DNS zones stored in Active Directory and want to migrate these to Simple DNS Plus. All your active directory zones can be exported to standard zone files with a single click, after which everything can be imported in Simple DNS Plus using the Import Wizard.
For more information, download and source code click here. - 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 - 3.5 - Convert Simple DNS Plus logs to W3C Extended log format
Use Simple DNS Plus raw request log files (.sdraw) with tools, such as log web-site traffic analyzers, that understand the standard W3C Extended format (as typically produced by IIS, Apache, and other web-servers).
The command line syntax is:
sdraw-w3c.exe <log-date> <raw-log-file> <w3c-log-file>
Raw request log files are enabled in the Simple DNS Plus Options dialog / Logging / Log Files section.
The zip file below contains both the compiled .exe file as well as the C# source code (VS2008). This is a very simple program so if you want to add some type of filtering (only output some requests) or build on this functionality, it is easy to do so.
Click here to download "sdraw-w3c.zip" (35 KB)
System requirements:
- Windows 98/2000 or later
- .NET Framework 2.0 - 3.5 - Sample dynamic DNS service web-server code (ASP.NET and Classic ASP)
Run your own dynamic DNS service with Simple DNS Plus.
For more details click here.
Click here to download "dyndns.zip" (2 KB)
On-line Tools
- DMARC record wizard
On-line tool to generate your DMARC records.
Click here to begin - MacOS/IOS configuration profile for DoT/DoH generator
On-line tool to generate a configuration profile file for MacOS v. 11+ (BigSur) / IOS v. 14+ to use a DNS server with DoT (DNS over TLS) or DoH (DNS over HTTPS).
Click here to begin - IDN / Punycode Conversion
On-line tool to convert international domains names to punycode.
Click here to begin - 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 - Private IPv6 address range generator
On-line tool to generate your own unique private IPv6 address range.
Click here to begin - DynSite plug-in file generator
On-line tool to generate DynSite plug-in configuration files compatible with the Simple DNS Plus DynDNS Service plug-in.
Click here to begin
Related JH Software products
- 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 simplefailover.com
3rd party tools
- Hosting Control Panels
The following hosting control panel packages support the latest version of Simple DNS Plus:
MSPControl
Hosting Controller
MachPanel
SolidCP (currently only Simple DNS Plus v. 4-6 but working on update...)
- 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 - intoDNS.com
A free on-line tool to check that your domain registration and your DNS server is setup and working correctly.
See www.intodns.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 let us know.