Codeflux’s Fast and Easy Internet Diagnostic Tools

Nov. 21st, 2008 By Jorge Sierra

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:

document validation

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.