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After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface
- 0xADADA 9y agowhats a RIPE interface?
- feld 9y agoRIPE is one of the internet registries.
- simcop2387 9y agoRIPE is the IP registrar for europe. like ARIN for north america or LACNIC for south america, etc.
- colonelxc 9y agoFrom their About us page: "We’re the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. As such, we allocate and register blocks of Internet number resources to Internet service providers (ISPs) and other organisations." This interface is the historical bgp announcements for this particular ASN. The X access is time. The Y axis is ip address blocks.
- shmageggy 9y agoSo some employee at an ISP registered IP addresses over time in such a way as to create this pattern? Kind of like how people make art out of their github commits [1] (only without the ability to retroactively modify the dates)? https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
- detaro 9y agoNearly, but they didn't register them, they just had their network announce routes for them (which is just telling other networks "hi, if you have traffic for this IP range I can send it on", the registration is unrelated to that)
- solotronics 9y agowhats a nyancat? /s
- nannal 9y agoWhat's an hour?
- 0xADADA 9y agoWhats BGP?
- na85 9y agoA cursory Google search would have revealed that BGP is Border Gateway Protocol.
- okreallywtf 9y agoWhy did people downvote a pretty appropriate snark while not downvoting a question that took longer to ask than the google search would have taken?
- falsedan 9y agoTrying to encourage kind behaviour and inclusiveness?
- brainfire 9y agoIncluding people who waste your time is not a productive activity.
- stestagg 9y agoPost gave off bad vibes. Bad vibes make people unhappy. Unhappy people make the internet have more bad vibes ..
- AckSyn 9y agoFeels before reals. Got it. In a somewhat related "vibe", it's only the less "polite" way of pointing out the obvious: typing that question out in the address/search bar will get the question answered significantly quicker than a forum.
- martin-adams 9y agoI for one appreciated the question "what is BGP?" for the following reasons... 1. It allows me to understand that I am not the only one who doesn't understand the terminology involved, allowing the discussion to be more educational and inclusive. 2. Sometimes searching for terminology is ambiguous and without prior knowledge of the subject domain, can result in lack of confirmation as to whether the definition is the same as the one in the article. 3. For one person to ask here and have it answered, can save 100 people having to search for themselves when reading the comments.
- Lanzaa 9y agoThat is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?
- Pxtl 9y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbyeM2C1Oc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbyeM2C1Oc Jump to 5:20 to hear Aphex Twin's face.
- freeflight 9y agoAphex Twin's face apparently sounds like a cat meowing, didn't expect that at all lol
- sambeau 9y agoAlso these animations in a spectrograph: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx6Gqf1Q4w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxx6Gqf1Q4w
- dTal 9y agoMake your own with ARSS: http://arss.sourceforge.net http://arss.sourceforge.net
- rsync 9y agoI immediately thought of the test flight patterns that pilots draw across the US with their flight plans. Here is a boeing test flight that drew out the boeing logo across the united states: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/787-dreamliner-draws-boeing-logo-flight-path_n_1274778.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/787-dreamliner-draw...
- zkms 9y agospectrogram art (both for audio and RF signals)
- jlgaddis 9y agoHow about Star Wars in traceroute? http://evilrouters.net/2013/02/09/when-ccies-get-bored-star-wars-traceroute/ http://evilrouters.net/2013/02/09/when-ccies-get-bored-star-...
- feld 9y agoThere's 28,000 IP addresses that could be used for something worthwhile instead of hoarded by clowns playing games with BGP to draw internet cats.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- rcarmo 9y agoI agree (irony warning!) those IPv4 addresses would be best used for Hue lamps or something, no? On a more serious note, I've been watching IPv6 "rolling out" since 2004 (which is when I had an active role in mobile network planning), and I'm somewhat saddened that we haven't yet been able to switch over completely (even if it is somewhat more awkward to shout IPv6 addresses across the room, which was one of the arguments one of my colleagues had against it.)
- fosco 9y agothats why we use DNS more effectively. A tool is only useful is if it implemented correctly. it would be easier and faster with well thought out DNS to yell a name across the room. (would have been my response to that silly argument)
- rcarmo 9y agoYeah, well, DNS can't be used for core network configs - only to expose them to lesser networks :) To clarify those of you who haven't worked in a telco core: You can't rely on DNS to configure core network gear. EVERYTHING of consequence is done using IP addresses, DNS is a convenience/comfort service for outer layers and end users.
- y4mi 9y agoand there are ... so many obscure and strange problems that are caused by a hiccup or simply misconfigured DNS... not saying you shouldn't use it, just ... don't claim it's the ultimate cool-aid that resolves everything.
- mateus1 9y agoI am as curious as the next guy but just a link to a random graph and no explanation... Uninteresting
- transitorykris 9y agoHe's doing announcements and withdraws of a bunch of /24s and a few other prefixes (including a few IPv6). The green bars are showing that a specific prefix was visible in the global routing table at a specific point in time (and the absence of green indicating it was not globally routed).
- mateus1 9y agoThanks for this. Appreciate the response I wasn't complaining about the content, just the lack of context.
- azinman2 9y agoNot sure about uninteresting, maybe you just want to know why/how.
- chris_wot 9y agoYou could click on it, and then look up what BGP is...
- rcarmo 9y agoOMG. The ingenuity (and geek level) of achieving this with something that is essentially invisible to 99.99999% of the human race (even most network admins) and planning ahead to do this is... indescribable. (the AS holder is http://instituut.net/~job/ http://instituut.net/~job/, to those uninitiated - I had to double check my comment) Sir, I take my many virtual hats off to you.
- job 9y agoThank you for the kind words :-)
- AceJohnny2 9y ago... what is that VT510 connected to? Is that tmux, with some ip config on the left, and an empty shell (with a fortune) on the right? Do the sunflowers represent anything? :)
- job 9y agoPC Engines APU2 with openbsd
- jameskegel 9y agoI'm glad people like you are part of the community.. Really cool project!
- __jal 9y agoJust to chime in, that made my day. Utterly brilliant.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoI guess instead of Nyan Cats on the internet we have Nyan cat as a part of it .
- floatboth 9y agoNot that invisible after it's been posted to HN :D
- zkms 9y agoThis sort of endearing Internet-scale thing reminds me of how NTT changes their reverse DNS's (https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-February/084128.html https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2016-February/0841...). There's other vanity reverse-DNS tricks that you can see in traceroutes, but this is done with a global-scale IPv4/IPv6 network that actually is carrying a lot of customer traffic. Try "traceroute ntt.net" now, you'll see hops like: 9 ae-19.sayonara-todd.r04.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.66.57) 17.225 ms 17.166 ms 17.171 ms 10 ae-5.sayonara-todd.r21.sttlwa01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.2.7) 16.257 ms 16.156 ms 16.101 ms 11 ae-3.sayonara-todd.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.124) 33.097 ms 33.125 ms 31.566 ms 12 ae-7.sayonara-todd.r23.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.4.155) 69.840 ms 69.764 ms 69.763 ms 13 ae-6.sayonara-todd.r10.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.5.4) 69.634 ms 74.424 ms 72.319 ms 14 ae-0.sayonara-todd.a01.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (129.250.3.244) 74.050 ms 74.046 ms 74.035 ms or 3 ae-13.sayonara-todd.r05.plalca01.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:5000::bae) 1.324 ms 1.307 ms 1.205 ms 4 ae-15.sayonara-todd.r02.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:2000::172) 2.505 ms 5 ae-10.sayonara-todd.r23.snjsca04.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:2000::cd) 2.091 ms 2.067 ms 6 ae-7.sayonara-todd.r23.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:2000::1fa) 38.386 ms 39.757 ms 38.312 ms 7 ae-6.sayonara-todd.r10.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:2000::1c1) 41.586 ms 8 ae-1.sayonara-todd.a02.dllstx09.us.bb.gin.ntt.net (2001:418:0:2000::135) 51.986 ms
- kiallmacinnes 9y agoThis is pretty cool, and took months, nice! :)
- garaetjjte 9y agoIn similar category of doing fun things with internet tools, you can play tetris on IPv6 traceroute: traceroute -I -q 1 trh.milek7.pl Game is controlled by appending chars into subdomain: w – rotate, s – drop, a – move left, d – move right. Example: tracerouting wwddds.trh.milek7.pl rotates 2x, moves right 3x and drops piece. After dropping to request new piece it is required to traceroute trh.milek7.pl without commands.
- jwilk 9y agoDoesn't work for me: # traceroute -I -q 1 trh.milek7.pl connect: Network is unreachable
- garaetjjte 9y agoAre you sure that you have IPv6?. I don't have 60k addresses to do it on IPv4 :)
- jwilk 9y agoI was sure the machine I was testing this on had IPv6. I was wrong. Ooopsie. How can I downvote myself?
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- beckler 9y agonot as cool, but on a similar note: traceroute -m 50 bad.horse
- omginternets 9y agoI see a poem, but I'm not sure I get it. What am I missing/not-appreciating here?
- caseymarquis 9y ago
- aendruk 9y agoScreenshot: https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcnTG8JBgvp3gAD7aDFVqZ53bYKfwadXwdr5YvW8HYwi5 https://gateway.ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcnTG8JBgvp3gAD7aDFVqZ53bYKfwa...
- SeriousM 9y agoThank you! I was hoping someone is posting this
- delegate 9y agojob, How did you come up with this idea ? I'm just curious what inspired you to work on it ?
- memetomancer 9y agopretty effin' great... this strikes me as a new variation of the Hellschreiber technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellschreiber
- Someone 9y agoThat's just impressive for being minimalistic, not for what it does. We had better faxes at least 50 years earlier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission), and (lousy) television using the same principle at about the same time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_television)
- arrty88 9y agoWhat do these charts usually look like?
- job 9y agoThis is a more regular example https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=AS8283 https://stat.ripe.net/widget/routing-history#w.resource=AS82... this shows the routing history of the prefixes originated by AS 8283 - and their observed reachability
- camiller 9y agoDid anyone grab a screencap? Following the link does nothing for me. Or is it because I'm behind a corporate firewall....
- dingo_bat 9y agoI had to wait ~20 seconds and it loaded.
- f4rker 9y agoamazing
- zmix 9y agoUpvote! 'nuff said.
- jsmith_2 9y agoPretty cool!
- wruza 9y agoWere 128 days an additional target or simply a consequence of manipulation routine?
- madflo 9y ago
- NTripleOne 9y agoBut 2011 was 52560 hours ago! Still, pretty neat. :)