decades ago while i was at work one day i had problems reaching the university server where i still had my email. for some reason i used traceroute to diagnose

decades ago while i was at work one day i had problems reaching the university server where i still had my email. for some reason i used traceroute to diagnose the problem. (i suppose it told me that there was an issue connecting to the university network or something in between, but the server itself was probably still running) so i ran traceroute in a loop at i don't know what interval watching for the server to come back. eventually i forgot about it. and since it was in a screen terminal, it kept running. days (or weeks?) later my boss received an email from the university about some strange packets periodically arriving at the university from our office. my boss asked me about it and then i remembered my traceroute loop, switched to the screen terminal and turned it off. i am/was impressed that they even noticed. and given how traceroute works as a hack, it also makes sense that they could not recognize that the packets were from a traceroute.