Hello Ben, Thursday, September 06, 2001, 12:42:58 PM, you wrote: BB> Greetings, all. BB> -A DNS zone file editor. It must be CGI, allow for forward and reverse BB> entries, and able to handle odd mappings (IE IN MX 32 mail.foo.bar, etc). search freshmeat.net, there are lots. BB> -A Cisco config builder. Preferably in CGI, but command line would be BB> acceptable as well. Basically something that allows me to make changes in BB> routers and either mirror them on a lot of other routers, as well as BB> displaying stats and other things in a pointy-haired-boss-friendly manner. search freshmeat.net for "cisco router" -- RANCID, Pancho, etc. will come up. BB> -Any kind of scripts designed with the abuse administrator in mind- IE log BB> parsers, Code Red automailers/procmail scripts, etc etc. cat /www/logs/*_log | grep 'default.ida' - | awk '{print $1}' > /root/bad_hosts.txt from there just do a for loop if you have reverse DNS set in apache and send to {web,post}master@bad_hosts.txt[$i] IMHO, it won't accomplish much. BB> All of these tools would be preferred in a GNU or freeware form, but I am BB> interested in all valid options. check out freshmeat.net Thanks, David mailto:davidu@everydns.net