Internet Access stored procedures for SQL Server 1.0

Internet Access stored procedures for SQL Server gives you a set of Internet Access extended stored procedures to communicate to internet in T-SQL queries.
This adds to T-SQL access to internet hosts and websites.
There are the following procedures:
- xp_IsPortOpen checks (scans) if the host has the given port open;
- xp_GetAddrByHost returns the IP address for the given host name;
- xp_GetHostByAddr returns the host name for the given IP address;
- xp_Ping returns statistics of ping operation like ping.exe utility does;
- xp_CanPing only checks if the destination host can be pinged (e.g. reachable);
- xp_TraceRoute returns statistics of trace route operation like tracert.exe utility does.
- xp_Whois on the given internet address, performs requests to international WHOIS databases and returns any available registration data;
These procedures are provided by a dynamic-link library, xpInetUtils.DLL.