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Rumskrot Beacon

The network engineer's toolbelt for iPhone and iPad. Nineteen native diagnostics and audits — TLS audit, domain audit, cert dashboard, diagnose wizard, plus the classics — all running on-device, with zero third-party SDKs and zero telemetry.

iPhone iPad

Features

Diagnose Wizard

Runs ping, DNS, TCP, TLS, and HTTP in sequence and tells you exactly which step in the path is broken.

TLS Audit

SSL Labs–style A+ to F grade, computed on-device. Protocol matrix, HSTS, cert health, the works.

Domain Audit

MX, SPF, DKIM, DMARC, CAA, BIMI in one tap. Posture verdict: Secure, Partial, or Misconfigured.

Cert Dashboard

Every host you’ve audited, sorted by expiry urgency. Never miss another cert renewal.

Templates

Chain N tools into a one-tap recipe. Curated presets like “API endpoint health check”, or build your own. Drives Shortcuts and Siri.

curl, Built In

Full HTTP request builder. Method picker, headers, body editor, and a one-tap “Copy as curl”.

MTR

Continuous traceroute with per-hop loss percentages and RTT sparklines. Watch the path live.

Ping with Trends

Per-packet RTT, loss %, min / max / avg / stddev — plus trends across every previous run against the same host.

DNS, WHOIS, ASN

Every record type with TTL and parsed RDATA, IPv4 / IPv6 PTR, parsed WHOIS, IP-to-ASN lookups — all from your device.

HTTP Probe & Port Scan

Status, headers, redirect chain, and a full timing breakdown. TCP port scan with service-name hints over a single port, range, or list.

TLS Inspector

Full certificate chain, negotiated version, cipher, ALPN, system trust verdict, days-remaining, SANs, and SHA-256 fingerprint.

mDNS / Bonjour

Discover AirPlay, Chromecast, SSH, HTTP(S), printers, HomeKit, SMB and workstations on your LAN, with TXT records.

Subnet & My Network

CIDR ↔ netmask, first / last host, broadcast, wildcard. Plus active path, every interface, public IPs, and constraint flags.

Run History & Saved Targets

Every probe is recorded. Bookmark hosts, pin them to the home screen, and re-run any past result with one tap.

App Intents Everywhere

Drive any probe from Shortcuts, Siri, automations, or other apps — output round-trips through the same history view.

Privacy-First by Design

Everything runs on-device. Zero analytics, zero crash trackers, zero third-party SDKs. No accounts, no sign-up, no email.

About

Rumskrot Beacon is built natively in Swift on top of Network.framework, the dnssd C API, and Swift Concurrency — no third-party SDKs, no relays, no servers. Every probe runs from your device. ASN and WHOIS go directly to public lookup services from your device, with no Beacon proxy in between.

If you reach for Beacon during outages, it pairs naturally with the rest of the toolbelt: Rumskrot Terminal for SSH, and Rumskrot Remote for VNC remote-desktop control of your Macs.

Free. No IAP, no ads, no premium tier. If Beacon saves you an oncall page, that’s worth more than a subscription would be.