Tools to create (and analyze) RIPE Atlas network measurements
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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:
pip3 install blaeu
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 and put it 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)
You may also be interested by my article at RIPE Labs, although the tools’ installation method and names are now different.
Blaeu requires Python 3.
Note that the old version ran on Python 2 but is no longer maintained.
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It comes from the famous Dutch cartographer.
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