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If 'Load NeoTrace Today' is checked the initial screen shown when NeoTrace loads will be taken from a remote server. Using this remote page allows you to be sure to see any dynamic changes that may be made to the page. If you experience performance problems due to slow load time of this page you may want to turn it off. You can view the dynamic page at any time by clicking on the logo in the top right corner of the window. If 'Check for new versions' is checked NeoTrace will periodically (approximately once a month) query a remote server to see if there are any updates available for NeoTrace. Updates include new data files, maps and updates to the program itself. The update check is made when NeoTrace is started. By default the 'Show startup screen' option is checked. When this option is on NeoTrace will display a startup screen with useful links, either from a local file or a live server depending on the 'Load NeoTrace Today' option. On older systems with poor browser performance or a small amount of memory you may have improved startup time and decreased memory usage by turning off the startup screen. In the Location Determination section of the dialog you can turn on use of Network and DNS LOC information. If the Network information is used it applies only to the target node and will only be used if all other methods of determining the location fail. The Network information used will be the country, city and postal code that appear in the Network information for that node. DNS LOC is a specialized type of DNS entry that contains information about the location of a node. Very few nodes have this information available and this combined with the performance cost of using it result in it being a feature not used by default. If you are certain you will get better results by using DNS LOC then you should turn it on, if you are not familiar with it we recommend you leave it off. If you use NeoTrace to trace hits you receive on your firewall you may want to turn on HackerWatch support. This enables you to report specific event information to HackerWatch.org for analysis and possible further action. To sign up for HackerWatch press the 'Sign Up For HackerWatch' button. Visit www.hackerwatch.org for more information. The 'Clear Trace History' button will delete the history list that appears in the drop-down list attached to the Target entry on the toolbar.
NeoTrace caches a lot of information that it receives from the many queries it makes on each trace. Having this information cached locally improves the performance time and reduces the number of queries made by NeoTrace. The trade off is that information does go out of date. The default expiration times for the local caches are reasonable, but you may wish to adjust them to suit your particular usage of NeoTrace. Most users will not want to change these values. |
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