BLAEU(1)

💖 BLAEU(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to Blaeu — it's a lil program in the User Commands corner of your manual, and it does NTP measurements using RIPE Atlas probes. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 🛰️✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

Blaeu — NTP measurements using RIPE Atlas probes 🕰️🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

blaeu-ntp target-name-or-IP

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

like, here's the thing: general options are your besties here. every single one of them, listed, no skips. 💅

• --verbose or -v — makes the program more talkative 🗣️ (it just yaps. love that for it.)
• --help or -h — this message 💬
• --displayprobes or -o — display the probes numbers (WARNING: big lists) 😭 so many numbers. brace yourself.
• --displayprobeasns — display the (unique) probe ASNumbers (currently only for blaeu-resolve) 🔎
• --cache-probes=<file.json> — cache probe data 💾
• --country=2LETTERSCODE or -c 2LETTERSCODE — limits the measurements to one country (default is world-wide) 🌍
• --area=AREACODE or -a AREACODE — limits the measurements to one area such as North-Central (default is world-wide) 🗺️
• --asn=ASnumber or -n ASnumber — limits the measurements to one AS (default is all ASes) 🏢
• --prefix=IPprefix or -f IPprefix — limits the measurements to one IP prefix (default is all prefixes) ⚠️ WARNING: it must be an exact prefix in the global routing table — like, exact exact. no vibes-based matching here, bestie.
• --probes=N or -s N — selects the probes by giving explicit ID (one ID or a comma-separated list) 🎯
• --requested=N or -r N — requests N probes (default is 5) ✋
• --percentage=X or -p X — stops the program as soon as X % of the probes reported a result (default is 90 %) 🛑
• --measurement-ID=N or -m N — do not start a measurement, just analyze a former one 🕵️♀️
• --old-measurement MSMID or -g MSMID — uses the probes of measurement MSMID ♻️
• --include TAGS or -i TAGS — limits the measurements to probes with these tags (a comma-separated list) 🏷️
• --exclude TAGS or -e TAGS — excludes from measurements the probes with these tags (a comma-separated list) 🚫
• --port=N or -t N — destination port for TCP (default is 80) 🚪
• --size=N or -z N — number of bytes in the packet (default is 64 bytes) 📦
• --ipv4 or -4 — uses IPv4 (default is IPv6, except if the parameter or option is an IP address, then it is automatically found) 🌐
• --tags TAGS — tag the measurement (no relationship with probes tags) (a comma-separated list) 🔖 note: these tags are not the probe tags, they're their own thing, ok?
• --spread or -w — spreads the tests (add a delay before the tests) 🫧
• --private — makes the measurement private 🤫
• --resolve-on-probe — resolve names with the probe's DNS resolver 🧭
• --machine-readable or -b — machine-readable output, to be consumed by tools like grep or cut 🤖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

The full documentation for Blaeu is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and Blaeu programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info Blaeu

should give you access to the complete manual. 📖✨

that's the whole page, babe. go measure some NTP, you absolute icon 👑💖

Blaeu version 2.1.1 — October 2024 — mwah, xoxo, see u in the next manpage 🦋💌