Network

Author(s)

• Chris Masters

Tags

Network DNS web IP Address ifconfig netstat cert certificate DHCP

Functions

Get-DnsAddressList Get-DNSDebugLog Get-DnsCache Clear-DnsCache Get-HostsFile Add-HostsFileEntry Remove-HostsFileEntry Get-DNSScavengeRecord Invoke-DNSManualCleanUp ConvertTo-DottedDecimalIP Convert-SubnetMaskToCidr Convert-CidrToDottedSubnetMask ConvertTo-DecimalIP Get-MyIpAddress Test-IPAddressIsValid Get-WebCertificate Get-WebSecurityProtocol Set-WebSecurityProtocol Import-509Certificate Expand-Uri Get-Proxy Enable-Proxy Disable-Proxy Set-WebCertificatePolicy Test-CertificateAuthorityPlacement Get-Netstat Send-WakeOnLan Get-GeoIPInfo New-MxToolBoxQuery Get-AdAuthorizedDhcpServer

Dependencies

• • core (>= 1.4.0)

Release Notes

Version 0.1
- Day one

Version 0.2
- Function (WEB) Added : Get-WebCertificate
- Function (DNS) Changed : Added progress to the Get-DnsDebugLog

Version 0.3
- Function (WEB) added : Get-WebSecurityProtocol
- Function (WEB) added : Set-WebSecurityProtocol
- Function (WEB) added : Import-509Certificate

Version 0.4
- Function (DNS) added : Get-HostsFile : Pretty self explainatory
- Function (DNS) added : Add-HostsFileEntry : Offers elevation if not running as admin
- Function (DNS) added : Remove-HostsFileEntry : Elevation offered. Only IP arg for now.

Version 0.5
- Function (WEB) added : Expand-Uri : for seeing the destination of a shortened URL w/o going there...
- Function (WEB) changed : Set-WebSecurityProtocol had a problem with looking up current protocols.
- Function (NET) added : Get-Netstat returns an object with established and listening port info
- Module : changed : Removed the prerequisite installer of the core module.
- Module : changed : Module now requires PowerShell version 5.0

Version 0.6
- Function (NET) added : Send-WakeOnLan added

Version 0.7
- Function (WEB) added : Disable-Proxy added. Disables IE proxy settings via registry keys.
- Function (WEB) added : Enable-Proxy added. Enables IE proxy settings via registry keys.
- Module : changed : now requires core version to be 1.4 or higher

Version 0.7.1
- Function (WEB) updated : Enable-Proxy now tries to figure out if you had proxy or auto URL configured

Version 0.7.2
- Function (WEB) added : Get-Proxy. Returns True or False based on the proxy status

Version 0.8
- Module updated : Changed the requires statement to not include NetAdapter or NetTCPIP. This way it will work with
older operating systems. This will only exclude one function (ifconfig).

Version 0.9
- Module updated : Cheanged the RequiredVersion, to ModuleVersion
- Function (DNS) : added : Get-DNSScavengeRecord returns records to be scavenged on DNS servers, if you enable it.

Version 0.9.1
- Function (DNS) : added : Invoke-DNSManualCleanUp. Just could not wait to add this one in, thus ver 0.9.!

Version 0.9.2
- Function : Changed : Get-MyIpAddress. Updated to bypass proxy, and use basic parsing. iwr still uses IE :(
- Function : Added : Test-IPAddressIsValid. Tests if an IP address is valid.
- Module : Changed : Moved to GitHub, with workflows to publish to the Gallery
- Module : Changed : Organized code with regions
- Class : Added : Class for CIDR IP address calculations

Version 0.9.2.1
- Function : Changed : Set-WebSecurityProtocol. TLS 1.3 protocol added

Version 0.9.2.2
- Function : Changed : Get-WebCertificate. Replaced deprecated [Net.HttpWebRequest] with TcpClient and SslStream.

Version 0.9.2.3
- Function : Changed : Get-WebCertificate. Updated parameter to more common "ComputerName", moved HostName to an alias.