blaeu 2.1.1

Description:

blaeu 2.1.1

This is a set of Python programs to start
distributed Internet measurements on the network of RIPE Atlas
probes, and to analyze their results.
For installation, you can use usual Python tools, for instance:
pip install blaeu
(On a Debian machine, the prerequitises are packages python3-pip,
python3-openssl, python3-dnspython, and python3-cymruwhois. This is only
if you install manually, otherwise pip will install the dependencies.)
Usage requires a RIPE Atlas API key (which itself requires a RIPE
account), and RIPE Atlas credits. If you don’t have a RIPE account,
register first. Once you have an account,
create a key, grant it the right to
schedule a new measurement, and

use it in environment variable ATLASAUTH
or put the key in ~/.atlas/auth

If you don’t have Atlas credits, host a probe,or become a
LIR or ask a
friend.
You can then use the four programs (-h will give you a complete list
of their options):

blaeu-reach target-IP-address (test reachability of the target,
like ping)
blaeu-traceroute target-IP-address (like traceroute)
blaeu-resolve name (use the DNS to resolve the name)
blaeu-cert name (display the PKIX certificate)
blaeu-ntp name (test NTP)
blaeu-http name (test HTTP, only to anchors)

You may also be interested by my article at RIPE
Labs.
Blaeu requires Python 3.
Note that the old
version
ran on Python 2 but is no longer maintained. (It was partially
documented at RIPE
Labs.)

Name
It comes from the famous Dutch
cartographer. The logo
of the project comes from his “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum” (see the
source).


Reference site
On FramaGit


Author
Stéphane Bortzmeyer [email protected]