RTMPQRY(1)

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version 4.5.1 · 7 versions
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🦋 RTMPQRY(1) 🦋

okay bestie, so this is rtmpqry from the Netatalk AFP Fileserver Manual — yes that Netatalk, the one that makes your Mac files play nice on Unix, and no we are not gatekeeping it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

rtmpqry — query AppleTalk routing information 🛰️✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

rtmpqry [-a | -r] [ -A local_address ] [remote_address]

thats it. thats the whole vibe. short, iconic, does exactly what it says on the tin 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So rtmpqry is the little tool you use to query and display the routing information that an AppleTalk router is out here advertising using the RTMP protocol. It's giving surveillance but make it networking 👀

And by default? It just queries the local atalkd instance. Homegirl doesn't even need to be told where to look — she knows 🏠✨

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -a — Query all routes, like, do not suppress the ones that split-horizon processing would normally drop. Generally (and if you don't pass this option at all), routers don't advertise routes where — hypothetically — if you sent it a packet, it would just yeet that packet straight back out the same interface to another router. Which, bestie, is pointless 💀 But sometimes you're just nosy and you want visibility into the structure of the internetwork, and then it's genuinely useful to see all the routes. So there you go 🌈
  • -r — Request just the RTMP network metadata, and none of the routes. Metadata only. Skinny legend energy 🙈
  • -A — Bind to the local AppleTalk address you give it (local_address). You pick the address, it binds there, periodt 📍

👑 EXAMPLES 👑

Get network range and seed router for the current network: 🍓

example$ rtmpqry -r 0.255
Router: 9.239
Network(s): 3 - 10
example$

Get all routes from the router at 12.1: 🔥

example$ rtmpqry -a 12.1
3 - 10 distance 0 via 12.1
11 distance 0 via 12.1
12 distance 0 via 12.1

example$

see how -a just dumps everything? main character behavior fr fr 👑

🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors) — an entire squad, not just one person, and that's lowkey the most iconic part 🫶

⚠️ no cap, this page is the whole page. every flag, every example, every reference is right here. if you need more, go read the source like a real one 😭

okay that's the whole manual, bestie — Netatalk 4.5.1 era, from the Netatalk AFP Fileserver Manual. go route some packets, slay, and don't forget to rtmpqry -r your local network before you @ me 💖✨👑

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