Many webmasters, network administrators, hackers, and other geek types use diagnostic tools to perform certain tasks. They often use a command line to run programs such as ping, traceroute, nslookup, whois, etc. Codeflux has an Internet tools gateway that allows you to run such programs from the convenience of your web browser.
The following tools are available on codeflux’s Internet tools gateway:
- finger – displays information about the system users
- nslookup – query Internet domain name servers
- whois – looks up records in the Network Information Center (NIC) database
- ssl – extract SSL (secure socket layer) information from a secure host
- traceroute – print the route packets take to network host
- ping – send query packets to network hosts
- dig – domain information groper – used to gather information from the DNS server
In addition to the Internet tools gateway, codeflux provides some other great tools online as well:
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document validation – verify the validity of different document types (HTML, XHTML, CSS, and SMIL) against the W3C and IETF standards.
tidy – prettify web page code for your web pages with HTML Tidy
apachebench – measure web server performance with ApacheBench
unix man pages – UNIX manual pages online with keyword search as well.
foldoc/jargon – look up technology terminology from two sources: FOLDOC (the Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing) and the Jargon File (AKA the New Hacker’s Dictionary)
encoder – encode text from any of these formats into another: text, binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal, and web-style.
and more such as atomic time, universal unit converter and resistor reference.
You may find it faster and more convenient to use codeflux when you already have a browser window open. You will definitely find it easier to use codeflux if you don’t regularly use a command line. All of the tools use very simple interfaces. The web design is also relatively simplistic which results in very fast load times.
Let us know in the comments what you think.
Tagged: administration • apache • reference sites • webmaster tools • whois
