Template talk:Anontools

Tor check
The "Tor check" link seems useless now with the installed extension mw:Extension:TorBlock which doesn't allow IP edits from Tor anyway. —AlexSm 18:11, 10 April 2009 (UTC)

Secure links
editprotected Please replace Rangeblock finder · Global Blocks&#93; · with [ Rangeblock finder] · [ Global Blocks]&#93; · so that users are not bounced between the secure and non-secure servers. Thank you.&mdash;C45207 &#124; Talk 21:10, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ Thanks, Peter Symonds ( talk ) 23:33, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Whois
Is there a technical reason why the whois link was changed from samspade to the toolserver? I find that samspade gives a bit more information in most cases. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:17, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I was talking with a developer on IRC about samspade's tool and they told me that it was outdated by years. What does samspade have that whois on the toolserver doesn't? It also seems to me that the toolserver is faster, as an advantage. -- Menti  fisto  09:46, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * As an entirely random example, compare toolserver with Samspade. Samspade tends to give more information if it is available.  I wonder what they meant by outdated.  They both pull from ARIN directly.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 11:55, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * As a not so random example, see -- zzuuzz (talk) 12:31, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I had noticed those too. They happened so rarely before (for me) that I didn't even consider them.  I guess that's one good reason to keep the new version.  Can the toolserver be made to show the information contained in my previous example?  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:13, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Why not just use the ARIN lookup. It seems like all the other tools just use it in a roundabout way.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 14:05, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Compare ARIN to the toolserver outside America. These regional links already exist in the template. -- zzuuzz (talk) 14:25, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. Looks like we're getting the best, most consistent results with what we're using currently.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 02:29, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Global contributions
editprotected Please add the following link for global contributions with blocks: Global contributions --Francisco (talk) 01:48, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅ —Th e DJ (talk • contribs) 14:49, 1 March 2010 (UTC)

Change URL of RBLs
Hi, the RBLs link does not go directly to the RBL page of robtex. Instead it should go to http://www.robtex.com/ip/213.146.172.146.html#blacklists for example. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   06:09, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I think it's actually intended as an rDNS link, which is far more useful than DNSBLs. Additionally the blacklist entries do get a mention on the IP page. Rather than changing the link which is useful, it's the description that's not entirely correct. Over a WP:OP we've just called this link 'Robtex', but most probably won't know what that means. It's a bit more than an rDNS link. -- zzuuzz (talk) 08:04, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Ah, okay. I guess that works also. I actually use robtex a lot. -- B s a d o w s k i 1   23:19, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Unforgettableid, 28 July 2010, to remove links to RIR whois pages
editprotected This template has links to various RIR's whois pages. But it seems to me that the first link on the template, labeled "whois" -- which points to http://toolserver.org/~chm/whois.php?ip= -- is sufficient to fulfill everyone's whois needs. So could someone please remove the redundant RIR whois links? --unforgettableid &#124; talk 00:41, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * That seems quite a big change to make unilaterally. HJ Mitchell  &#124;  Penny for your thoughts?   02:50, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the template. --ANowlin: talk 03:46, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
 * These links are useless for me, I can say that much. I removed them on my home wiki a long time ago. — AlexSm 14:07, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

ARIN changeover
ARIN changed to Whois-RWS back in July 2010. Since the old service apparently no longer works at all, I've boldly updated this template to use the new service. Uncle G (talk) 12:23, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Depending on MediaWiki compatibility
Add one or the other from one of the below before And as usual, do not include the "tt" or "nowiki" declarations. mechamind  9  0  20:58, 18 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Done. Let me know if there is a problem (or revert or re-enable editprotected). Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 02:22, 20 September 2010 (UTC)


 * What is the need for this additional link? This footer is displayed when you are either already in the anon user's contributions page or on the user's talk page.  It's pointless in the first case because it links to where you already are and redundant in the second because every talk page has a link to contributions in the toolbox.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 11:15, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Before you could not link from the talk page on Wikipedia to the Wikipedia contributions by that user. You can now. mechamind  9  0  17:21, 24 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm not clear on what you're saying. Which "talk page on Wikipedia" are you referring to?  Article talk, user talk?  Since the only talk page this template shows up on is the user talk, I assume that's what you mean.  But there has always been a link to the user's contributions from the talk page.  It's in the toolbox.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 00:55, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Yes, I'm talking about the user talk page for an IP address. But the Wikipedia Contributions page was not accessible from the front. Even if it's accessible from somewhere else, an obvious option was not at the front. mechamind  9  0  05:59, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Sorry if I'm missing the justification here. On every user talk page, anon or not, there is a link to that user's contributions in the toolbox on the left of the screen.  I would consider that an obvious option right at the front.  Are you saying that link is not sufficient to get what you need?  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 12:15, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * If all first warnings issued to that user are from Huggle, and no warnings are automatically issued by ClueBot, there would be no easy way, as the IP address doesn't always edit their own talk page. mechamind  9  0  17:04, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I'm afraid we're talking past each other and not understanding the other's points. Can you point me to an example talk page where the contributions link would not exist except for in the new anon footer?  The user contributions link exists on every user talk page regardless of who has or has not edited the page.  If you have happened to switch to the Vector skin, the toolbox is minimized by default.  Is that why you can't see it?  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 17:21, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Permanently minimized? I don't see anywhere to expand it so it appears. mechamind  9  0  19:37, 25 September 2010 (UTC)

Jumping in a bit late, I made the requested edit since it appeared to be non-controversial, but now it appears there is some objections. From my reading of the thread, it seems everyone agrees that the "toolbox" on the left side of the screen has a link to a user's contributions. The toolbox is (by default) minimized, so the link is not entirely obvious, but it is there. So, it seems as though the question is whether or having a redundant (unminimized) link is necessary. Is this correct? If you would like me to reverse the edit (or have someone else reverse the edit), just make an editrequest or do it yourself if you are able. I am entirely indifferent. Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk) 21:11, 25 September 2010 (UTC)


 * If you're using Vector, the word "toolbox" should have an arrow next to it. If it points to the right, it is minimized.  If it points down, it is maximized.  Are you able to click the arrow?  Are you using Vector?  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 21:14, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It seems like this change came about as a result of a misunderstanding by the OP. If there is no objection, I'm going to change it back.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 04:19, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

✅ -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:57, 27 September 2010 (UTC)

Remove "global blocks" link
"Rangeblock finder" now shows both range blocks and global block, see e.g. Special:BlockList/62.212.85.10 so this link can be renamed into something like "Current blocks" while "Global blocks" link can be removed altogether. — AlexSm 15:18, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- zzuuzz (talk) 16:18, 14 October 2011 (UTC)

Potential change
See WP:VPT. — This, that, and the other (talk) 06:19, 20 January 2012 (UTC) ✅--v/r - TP 14:59, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

IPv6 detection
Fun fact, this can be done without strfind short or friends. Replace this template with:

This will work because a valid IPv4 address is just a few numbers separated with dots, and #expr: will accept it as a floating-point value. However, hex digits separated with colons will not be accepted. (For ex. " " (my IP) yields "".) Matma Rex pl.wiki talk 18:16, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Looks good! ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:24, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

Traceroute doesn't work
Traceroute service is not a free service anymore. --Stryn (talk) 10:03, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * So, are you asking for that to be removed? Thanks! Plastikspork ―Œ (talk)  05:00, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Remove or replace, if possible. Now it is useless. --Stryn (talk) 06:09, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
 * You can replace it with a URL of the form http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#traceroute/type=ipv4&&value=127.0.0.1&& for the example 127.0.0.1.  —  Jeff G. ツ  (talk)   02:00, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've changed Template:Anontools/ipv6 to follow Jeff's suggestion, but the Template:Anontools/ipv4 seems to already use dnsstuff (and works?) Please clarify the request. &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 19:22, 13 September 2012 (UTC)

NB: The dnsstuff no longer was free in my tests, so I switched to domaintools: http://www.domaintools.com/research/traceroute/?query=8.8.8.8 L Faraone  21:37, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 24 December 2012
This request is related to Template:Anontools/ipv4.

Africa link is currently broken (see 36981 and this request).

As AfriNIC accepts only POST requests and not GET ones, an alternative script is provided to replace it.
 * Current line: Africa ·
 * New line: Africa ·

Dereckson (talk) 00:45, 25 December 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅. Thanks very much for creating this tool! Graham 87 01:58, 25 December 2012 (UTC)

Whois is broke
All results are coming up IANA. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:27, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I changed it to an older version for now. Revert if that was a bad thing.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:41, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * BTW, I didn't update ipv6 as I don't have one handy to add. -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 18:42, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Should be fixed now. Q  T C 22:50, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

Error
Do we have the correct word next to Geolocate? If the other geolocation service being offered is an alternative to the first, it should be alternative.

Alternate – occurring by turns

Alternative – said of two or more possiblities

Inglok (talk) 11:17, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

Global Contributions
Per this can the link on the respective subtemplates (IPv4 and IPv6) be altered to the link mentioned in the prior discussion.— cyberpower Chat Limited Access 12:47, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * The idea is that you actually put the code in the sandbox, and actually test it to make sure that it works... Anyway, I have done that for you here (links are generated from the editprotected template), and I have run across a problem. Something seems to be inserting the text "%E2%80%8E" before the username field in the URL, which means the links don't work. Any idea what this might be? — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 16:53, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You inadvertently inserted an LRM character into the parameter. I have fixed it for you here.— cyberpower  Chat Limited Access 17:07, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done. Aha, that would be when I copied and pasted the IP address from the related changes page. I fixed a few more that crept in as well. Everything checks out now, so I've made the edits. Best — Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 17:21, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks.— cyberpower Chat Offline 18:04, 8 January 2014 (UTC)

APNIC RIR search button no longer works
Seems they redesigned their website. They currently point to this page for WHOIS services: http://wq.apnic.net/apnic-bin/whois.pl. —/M endaliv /2¢/Δ's/ 22:52, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

DNSstuff requiring registration for IPv6 traceroute
Template:Anontools/ipv6 currently links to http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools#traceroute/type=ipv4&&value=&& [sic: ipv4 instead of ipv6], but it appears that DNSstuff now requires one to create an account on their site to use this tool for IPV6 addresses (example). Is there an alternative web service that could be linked in the template instead? Regards, HaeB (talk) 04:54, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Whois
Can we please replace Overlord's whois tool (now removed because toolserver has gone dead) with a commercial lookup site? I believe that was always the case before Overlord's tool so I don't see that's an issue. http://whois.domaintools.com/ seems to work ok and it's free for basic lookups, is there any objection to adding it to the template? The first google result is https://who.is/ but this failed to find data for some of the IPs I tested it with, 121.54.54.249 for instance. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 14:30, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Since no one else seems to be taking any interest, I have added an IPv4 and IPv6 tool myself. I have no particular attachment for either of those, they were picked more or less at random.  If someone wants to suggest something better, or alternatives, the go for it. <b style="background:#FAFAD2;color:#C08000">Spinning</b><b style="color:#4840A0">Spark</b> 14:45, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Your update is much appreciated here at least. —S MALL  JIM   17:19, 13 July 2014 (UTC)

AFRINIC Broken
Need to follow back up on this--noticed that AFRINIC is not pointing to the RIR but to the now defunct toolserver. — xaosflux  <sup style="color:#00FF00;">Talk  15:24, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
 * ✅. Updated to http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext= links . —  xaosflux  <sup style="color:#00FF00;">Talk  19:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

hlist
Please convert /ipv4 and /ipv6 to hlist. Converting to hlist results to more cleaner code on the template and makes easier for other wiki to use enwiki templates as other wikis use different kind of bullet. I did that conversion on my sandbox, this for ipv4 and this for ipv4. Thank you. –ebraminiotalk 08:47, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Sorry for the long wait. — <span style="color: #194D00; font-family: Palatino, Times, serif">Mr. Stradivarius  ♪ talk ♪ 18:43, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

Global contributions
Please replace on Template:Anontools/ipv6 :

by

like on Template:Anontools/ipv4. Thanks. Thibaut120094 (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2015 (UTC)
 * ✅ &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:22, 2 August 2015 (UTC)

Fix several broken links
Taking into account how often these links are broken and how long it often takes for broken links to be remarked and fixed, I dare challenging the sense of their existence and frequency of actual use. In the meantime, please try to fix these broken ones: --Blahma (talk) 00:26, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Traceroute – requires registration/membership – could possibly be changed to  (if it works for you)
 * Asia/Pacific – Not Found – should probably be changed to
 * Latina America/Caribbean – links to empty form – should probably be changed to
 * ✅ These three URLs have been updated. Thanks,  Nakon  04:34, 28 May 2016 (UTC)

HTTPS URLs for Anontools/ipv4 links
The purpose of this edit is to provide increased privacy and security for users, and, in some cases, to reduce the number of HTTP redirects. The edit involves having the Anontools/ipv4 template use HTTPS URLs for some of the links that currently use HTTP URLs. In Anontools/ipv4, please change the following URLs: Thanks. --Elegie (talk) 05:43, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅  should be changed to
 * ✅  should be changed to
 * ✅  should be changed to
 * should be changed to
 * — xaosflux  Talk 18:41, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 18:46, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

I made some additional edits to both of the subtemplates: —DoRD (talk)​ 20:13, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The traceroute link wasn't working as it was, so I updated the link to what the site actually uses.
 * However, dnsstuff.com doesn't appear to work with IPv6 at all, so I commented out the link while I look for an acceptable replacement.
 * The rDNS link was just the robtex whois page, so I removed it. The geolocate link gives the rDNS for IPv4, but I'll look for an acceptable replacement here as well.
 * The Europe and Asia/Pacific RIR links were identical, so I combined them.
 * that's because I broke APNIC, I just fixed it. — xaosflux  Talk 20:23, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
 * The edit request above was wrong for apnic, the target url "worked" but it was completely the wrong place, I changed it to use the httpS version of apnic now as well. — xaosflux  Talk 20:24, 20 May 2017 (UTC)

Anontools/ipv4 link
DNSstuff's current link does not work as it appears they changed their url format for IPv4. Please change the following: to Thanks. – Nihlus (talk) 06:01, 1 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:08, 1 October 2017 (UTC)

HTTP links (WhatIsMyIPAddress.com, AfriNIC Whois) that support HTTPS
The purpose of this edit is to provide increased privacy and security for users by having the Anontools/ipv4 and Anontools/ipv6 templates use HTTPS for certain HTTP links that redirect to HTTPS. (In addition, in Anontools/ipv6, it is possible to reduce the number of redirects by using a more up-to-date URL for the RIPE NCC link.) Thanks. --Elegie (talk) 10:19, 28 January 2018 (UTC)
 * In Template:Anontools/ipv4,  should be changed to   instead. (For example, http://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/133.41.136.55 generates an HTTP 301 redirect to https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/133.41.136.55.)
 * In Template:Anontools/ipv4,  should be changed to   instead. (For example, http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=133.41.136.55 generates an HTTP 301 redirect to https://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=133.41.136.55.)
 * In Template:Anontools/ipv6,  should be changed to   instead. (For example, http://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=2601:2:2380:128:e8fc:b087:c985:ca01 generates an HTTP 301 redirect to https://www.afrinic.net/cgi-bin/whois?searchtext=2601:2:2380:128:e8fc:b087:c985:ca01.)
 * In Template:Anontools/ipv6,  should be changed to   instead, in order to reduce the number of redirects. (As of now, test cases for this change can be viewed on this page.)
 * Done. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 10:30, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

AFRINIC broken again
The AFRINIC whois system has changed to a JavaScript form based one which does not support URL based queries (IP in the URL). See this for more info. --Bsadowski1 14:58, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * what a shame, don't suppose you'd like to try to follow up with hostmaster@afrinic.net to see if they have an alternative GET related interface? — xaosflux  Talk 15:15, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe they have now replaced it with something else? See https://afrinic.net/whois/rdap#how-to. It's called the Registration Data Access Protocol, which may replace or has replaced WHOIS? --Bsadowski1 03:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 11 March 2019
Add used in system to the doc page; the template is used in system messages &#123;&#123;3x&#124;p&#125;&#125;ery (talk) 00:01, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ — xaosflux  Talk 03:35, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 24 April 2019
(other) AAMINE1965 (talk) 22:47, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
 * please mock up your suggested changes in the page sandbox first. — xaosflux  Talk 00:51, 25 April 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 17 May 2019
i want to add free website that better and free AAMINE1965 (talk) 02:08, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
 * Red information icon with gradient background.svg Not done: As said above, please test your changes in the sandbox first. DannyS712 (talk) 02:11, 17 May 2019 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 9 January 2020
The "Africa" link is no longer working, apparently the website had some restructuring recently. It seems they're now making the search with some sort of POST request and showing the result in a popup, so I am not sure whether it's even feasible to create this kind of link to their site. If it's possible, the link should be corrected, otherwise removed. – Ammarpad (talk) 11:40, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
 * Afrinic is still the official source of information so I'm hesitant to not list it at all, however I've adjusted the link to just land on the search page instead of an error message for now. —  xaosflux  Talk 12:35, 9 January 2020 (UTC)

Update Toolforge URL
Hi, can you update the URLs to Toolforge in both the /ipv4 and /ipv6 subpages as they have changed due to T234617 I've already made the changes in both sandboxes. -- Nintendofan885T&amp;Cs apply 17:52, 13 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Izno (talk) 18:13, 13 July 2020 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 28 August 2020
Adds XTools link. Also a request at MediaWiki_talk:Sp-contributions-footer-anon. Pretty useful, especially for long-term IP editors, and consistent with our user version. Edit in sandbox, can be seen in testcases. Thanks. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 16:37, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done &mdash; Martin (MSGJ · talk) 20:35, 29 August 2020 (UTC)

Subtemplates?
Is there any particular advantage to using subtemplates for the IPv4 and IPv6 links, instead of having them directly on the base template? As-is, the subtemplates make it harder to see the actual code that produces the links (even if only marginally), splits the edit history for this template up among three separate pages, and increases the weight of this template when used (which I ordinarily wouldn't care about for such a simple template, but it was enough of a concern for Template talk:Anontools [‍related template edit] years ago). 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」☎ Dinoguy1000 16:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
 * At this time, the contents of the subtemplates are also identical, as far as I can tell. 「 ディノ 奴 千？！ 」☎ Dinoguy1000 16:34, 4 March 2021 (UTC)

Please move Template:Anontools/ipv4 to Template:Anontools and delete/redirect Template:Anontools/ipv6. They are now exactly the same template and there is no longer any need for a separate template for ipv6 and ipv4. Tholme (talk) 18:44, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
 * ❌ (not done for now at least) - these have extensive histories and have had to be customized multiple times in the past; lets let these bake in for a while more - and also determine what if anything we want to do with the histories; I'd be more supportive of redirecting the old ones vs deleting in the event we need to go back. — xaosflux  Talk 10:28, 10 May 2021 (UTC)

Robtex dead
It seems that https://www.robtex.com/whois is not functional; Don't know if it's just a temporary issue or if it's permanent and we should remove the link. → Aza Toth 16:19, 31 May 2021 (UTC)

geoip broken for ipv6 ranges
eg the geoip on Special:Contributions/2601:194:300:130:250D:335F:8C60:4259/64 will not work. It seems it's just a basic redirect. A slightly smarter replacement for cases where it's possibly a CIDR range would fix it. ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:13, 2 July 2021 (UTC)


 * Alternatively, could use Module:IP ProcrastinatingReader (talk) 00:25, 2 July 2021 (UTC)