IMified “NetLookup”

And I couldn’t resist: Another IMified widget. This one provides a collection of networking tools: The “NetLookup” widget that should show up on an IMified widgets page near you soon allows you to query a variety of network databases. You always give it a command in the form commandname target. The following commands are currently supported:

    ping domain.com - Pings the given hostname five times and outputs the results.
    traceroute domain.com - Outputs a traceroute to the given domain.
    alexa domain.com - Prints Alexa Web Information about the given domain name.
    whois domain.com - Looks up information about the domain name in the WHOIS database.
    enum +1-604-958-1212 - Looks up ENUM entries for a phone number.
    help - Prints this help text.

The traceroutes and pings originate from the logfile.ch server which is located in a datacenter near Munich in Germany. The Alexa service uses the Alexa Web Information Service from Amazon Web Services. The ENUM lookup is not very intelligent right now but it should suffice for the more common ENUM entries - and it looks up ENUM entries on a lot of different ENUM directory services, most notably of course e164.arpa and e164.org.

Adding the widget until it shows up on the IMified database is easy as well. You can proceed according to the instructions given for the BudgetBot, using the following information:

  • Name this Widget: NetLookup
  • Widget URL: http://www.logfile.ch/imified_netlookup.php
  • Type: Basic

Again, let me know if you find bugs or have ideas for additional features.

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