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• access monitoring & log management, • spambot "bad behavior" screening, • geoIP & top countries usage mapping, • multidomain & IP/AS whois lookups, • autodiscovery for whois TLD server, • DNS and Dig (ANY, SOA, NS, MX) queries, • email address format & MX validation, • port check with services lookup option, • HTTP HEAD and GET requests, • ICMP pings (local and/or remote), • traceroutes (local and/or remote), • looking glass router interrogation, • updateable geoIP & port services data, • user inputs with admin notice & approval, • multi-instance sideblocks in CMS editions, • admin selectable CSS stylesheet options, • full W3C XHTML 1.1 & CSS compliance. |
Netquery, the complete PHP/SQL open-source toolkit of network utilities, is available as a standalone application and as a module for the following CMSs: e107, PHP-Fusion, Xaraya, Xoops and Zikula.
Version 4.5 (released 2012-05-01) eliminates the need for a GeoIP table in its database and for updating the database when newer GeoIP versions are released. Instead, this Netquery version uses the data in MaxMind's "free countries" GeoIP.dat binary file directly with a PHP API interface. Only simple overwrite updating of that separately downloadable GeoIP.dat file is now required to keep Netquery current with the most recent release available.
Due to its newly revised and integrated GeoIP handling, Netquery is no longer being made available as a "core only" download. However, updating of the the GeoIP data and the optional ports data table both remain entirely independent of the Netquery installation itself.
The current Netquery release uses no deprecated PHP functions and is fully compatible with PHP v5.3 and PHP v5.4, including all MySQL and MySQLi extensions incorporated in those PHP releases. All current Netquery editions are also fully compliant with W3C HTML and CSS standards. (Full validation at that level is contingent on CMS versioning and other external environment factors.) Netquery now requires PHP version 5.1 or later. It is fully compatible with all PHP default "production site" settings.
Only the Netquery standalone download includes its own handler for basic administrator login authentication. (The CMS editions rely upon module security provided by the CMS.) If you want to control user access for the standalone edition, authentication add-ons are readily available from open source PHP script sites, including HotScripts and the PHP Resource Index.
Administrators can enable or disable each Netquery feature individually and can configure local execution and/or a remote server script for the ping and traceroute features. The administrator can also edit all of the data tables used by the whois, port services and looking glass features and can allow site users to submit port services and exploits information for acceptance.
For additional details, please see the Netquery Manual or go to the VIRtech Forums for discussion and answers to your questions.
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