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The Star Wars Route: Do a traceroute to 216.81.59.173
- sippndipp 14y agoThis reminds me of what happens if you hack this in your terminal: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
- omaranto 14y ago"hack this"?
- fpp 14y agoUse any traceroute site/program (not just the one in the link): TraceRoute to 216.81.59.173 206.214.251.1 episode.iv 206.214.251.6 a.new.hope 206.214.251.9 it.is.a.period.of.civil.war 206.214.251.14 rebel.spaceships 206.214.251.17 striking.from.a.hidden.base 206.214.251.22 have.won.their.first.victory 206.214.251.25 against.the.evil.galactic.empire 206.214.251.30 during.the.battle 206.214.251.33 rebel.spies.managed 206.214.251.38 to.steal.secret.plans 206.214.251.41 to.the.empires.ultimate.weapon 206.214.251.46 the.death.star 206.214.251.49 an.armored.space.station 206.214.251.54 with.enough.power.to 206.214.251.57 destroy.an.entire.planet 206.214.251.62 pursued.by.the.empires 206.214.251.65 sinister.agents 206.214.251.70 princess.leia.races.home 206.214.251.73 aboard.her.starship 206.214.251.78 custodian.of.the.stolen.plans 206.214.251.81 that.can.save.her Trace complete [update: additional hops ] 206.214.251.86 people.and.restore 206.214.251.89 freedom.to.the.galaxy 206.214.251.177 by.ryan.werber 206.214.251.182 when.ccies.get.bored 206.214.251.185 ccie.38168 206.214.251.190 fin
- petercooper 14y agoIt goes somewhat further if you let it/your system is compatible.
- pjungwir 14y agoOn Ubuntu `traceroute` only goes 30 hops by default, but you can see more with this: traceroute -m 100 216.81.59.173
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- huhtenberg 14y agotraceroute defaults to 30 hops, hence the trim. Depending on your location you may need to bump it up to 40-50 if not more to get the full version.
- matt2000 14y agoHilarious - does anyone have any backstory or more info?
- petercooper 14y ago60 by.ryan.werber (206.214.251.177) 153.282 ms 154.264 ms 149.479 ms 61 when.ccies.get.bored (206.214.251.182) 154.085 ms 150.249 ms 147.620 ms 62 ccie.38168 (206.214.251.185) 148.633 ms 150.156 ms 152.908 ms 63 fin (206.214.251.190) 155.715 ms * 429.865 ms
- _djo_ 14y agoIt's by Ryan Werber [0] [0]http://www.linkedin.com/in/rwerber http://www.linkedin.com/in/rwerber
- qixxiq 14y agoThe full text of the traceroute $ traceroute -m 100 216.81.59.173 | awk '{print $2}' ... cut ... * Episode.IV A.NEW.HOPE It.is.a.period.of.civil.war Rebel.spaceships striking.from.a.hidden.base have.won.their.first.victory against.the.evil.Galactic.Empire During.the.battle Rebel.spies.managed to.steal.secret.plans to.the.Empires.ultimate.weapon the.DEATH.STAR an.armored.space.station with.enough.power.to destroy.an.entire.planet Pursued.by.the.Empires sinister.agents Princess.Leia.races.home aboard.her.starship custodian.of.the.stolen.plans that.can.save.her people.and.restore freedom.to.the.galaxy 0-------------------0 0------------------0 0-----------------0 0----------------0 0---------------0 0--------------0 0-------------0 0------------0 0-----------0 0----------0 0---------0 0--------0 0-------0 0------0 0-----0 0----0 0---0 0--0 0-0 00 I By.Ryan.Werber When.CCIEs.Get.Bored CCIE.38168 FIN
- Evbn 14y agoThis is super brilliant, but why do so much of these things use Star Wars for context? Anything else would be just as cute as less creepily cultic worshipful of one movie series.
- ElliotH 14y agoI suppose if you're going to this level of effort you want geeks of all flavours to appreciate the joke. I imagine Star Wars is probably the best 'rosetta stone' for this purpose.
- scrye 14y agoI was inspired by looking endlessly at traceroutes slowly scrolling by. Im snowed in and I decided to give it a try. It only uses 2 routers to do this and VRFs.
- dhimes 14y agoI'm snowed in too and this made me happy. Thanks!
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- lucastheisen 14y agothat was a good chuckle... thanks for sharing.
- oliland 14y agoDon't forget to watch Episode IV in the terminal! $ telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl When I was younger I went out of my way to get a V6 address just to watch it in color ;)
- charlesju 14y agoThat's so awesome. I can't believe this exists. How did they make it?
- chrismarlow9 14y agoFrom the creator: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html From his page he says he just ported what this guy did to telnet.
- Wintamute 14y agoOh my God he made it in a simple text editor using copy and paste. Mind blown.
- Tekker 14y agoIt should be noted that the Star Wars asciimation guy also did the thoroughly awesome Jet Powered Beer Cooler using a jet engine built in his shed (in NZ) to chill his guinness to a respectable 2c, of which I am in awe. http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/index.html http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/index.html
- schmidp 14y agoNo color for me: Well, the IPv6 version is exactly the same as the IPv4 one. The difference is in the visitors... Je bent een Stoere Bikkel, aka You Rock.
- IgorPartola 14y agoapt-get install miredo That works as a last resort. Or sign up for SixXS using an AYIYA tunnel, apt-get install aiccu and enjoy.
- 0x0 14y agoWorks great with "mtr" (known as "mtr-tiny" in Debian?) - much better than with the regular traceroute :)
- vacri 14y agomtr in debian, but if you're running it in X, you might want to use mtr -t
- blowski 14y agoFor the less technically able amongst us, how does this work?
- wuest 14y agoIf you have control over a block of IPs, you can set the PTR records to whatever you feel like. Having invalid PTR records will cause headaches for you in a limited set of cases (e.g. sane mail servers won't accept mail from a host which has a PTR record that doesn't have A and PTR records which refer to each other) but outside of that, the owner of the IP block can do essentially whatever they want with the records. Someone clever decided to have a very long route to a box, and very clever PTR records.
- 0x0 14y agoThey probably set up a long series of gateways along the route, and added reverse DNS names to match up.
- vy8vWJlco 14y agoAnd as likely, it could just be a series of light VMs running on the same host, if not just elaborate masquerading on a bunch of virtual interfaces.
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- scrye 14y agoTwo Cisco 1841's running many vrfs bouncing packets back and forth. Source: I did it.
- X-Istence 14y agoNeat! Although, I'd have done it differently. using some packet capture tools, fake replies with the various different IP addresses. That way you don't even have to run a physical router that bounces it back and forth.
- disclosure 14y agohttps://dazzlepod.com/ip/?ip_address=216.81.59.173 https://dazzlepod.com/ip/?ip_address=216.81.59.173
- bane 14y agoin windows, this will get the entire thing tracert -h 100 216.81.59.173
- yread 14y agoNo wonder we're out of IPv4 addresses...
- turtlepower 14y agoOn MIT campus you can tell which building you're in by your IP...
- takeda64 14y agoYeah /8 what a waste. Many organizations were asked to return /8 in exchange to /16, but snobs at MIT refused.
- jrockway 14y agoWhy should MIT have to pay for someone else's historical mistakes? The IP addresses are just as valuable as any other part of MIT's endowment, and universities don't typically give their assets away for no reason. (If someone wants MIT to change to a /16, I'm sure there's some sum of money that could convince them.) Ultimately, even if everyone gave their IPv4 addresses back, there would still be a tiny supply of addresses that can't scale. So we need IPv6 regardless of who is greedy about their IPv4 space.
- agwa 14y agoThis is hilarious - though I wish they had more of an artificial delay between the hops to keep the suspense. If you're curious how you might implement this without actually needing a whole bunch of different hosts with routes between them, see this tool by Moxie Marlinspike: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/fakeroute/ http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/fakeroute/ You still need a big block of IP addresses though since you want the reverse DNS lookup for each IP address to return a different line from the scroll. Definitely a waste of IPv4 addresses; someone some do a IPv6 implementation ;-) Edit: I just noticed http://beaglenetworks.net/ http://beaglenetworks.net/ at the bottom of the traceroute - this was implemented by carefully setting up routing tables and VRFs on a Cisco router. fakeroute seems easier but not a bad way to keep busy during a blizzard.
- phponrails 14y agoNerd by day, raver by night
- tlrobinson 14y agoNo wonder we're running out of IPv4 addresses!
- pla3rhat3r 14y agoIt's so simple but brilliant!
- nirgle 14y agoYou haven't heard of the tracert? She made the kessel route in less than 30 hops
- eisbaw 14y agoI see what you did there.
- JMill 14y agoVideo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJELwSV1P0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPJELwSV1P0
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- rlf 14y agoYou guys have way to much free time on your hands. BTW, I'm proud of my -13.
- josteink 14y agoIn a period when people are complaining about IPv4 address-shortage, this seems a tad excessive.
- RKearney 14y agoIf only ARIN started to revoke IPv4 blocks based on this kind of waste.
- gardarh 14y agoYes, this is a perfectly good class C network wasted. What a shame.
- JMill 14y agorelated: "Star Wars Traceroute - How I did it" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193725 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5193725
- packetslave 14y agoThere's a Star Trek version as well, but it only works if you're on IPv6. $ traceroute6 -m 120 tng.prolixium.com traceroute to tng.prolixium.com (2001:48c8:1:137::32), 120 hops max, 24 byte packets [snip] 11 v6-seattle-ix.voxel.net (2001:504:16::745f) 209.28 ms 207.781 ms 207.18 ms 12 3890.te6-2.tsr1.lga3.us.voxel.net (2001:48c8::8c9) 277.482 ms 279.604 ms 277.079 ms 13 0.ae1.tsr1.lga5.us.voxel.net (2001:48c8::822) 282.205 ms 286.997 ms 276.887 ms 14 0.ae2.csr2.lga6.us.voxel.net (2001:48c8::82e) 280.187 ms 284.989 ms 277.817 ms 15 em0.dax.prolixium.net (2001:48c8:1:2::2) 277.495 ms 277.68 ms 277.61 ms 16 si3.starfire.prolixium.net (2001:48c8:1:1ff::1a) 311.417 ms 305.949 ms 305.109 ms 17 0.re0.ra.prolixium.net (2001:48c8:1:119::2) 307.72 ms 305.633 ms 305.915 ms 18 0.fx0.voyager.prolixium.net (2001:48c8:1:11f::2) 304.583 ms 303.806 ms 304.216 ms 19 . (2001:48c8:1:137::2) 307.199 ms 303.983 ms 303.874 ms 20 Space (2001:48c8:1:137::6) 310.575 ms 308.043 ms 307.941 ms 21 the.Final.Frontier (2001:48c8:1:137::a) 307.198 ms 304.489 ms 305.967 ms 22 These.are.the.voyages.of.the.starship (2001:48c8:1:137::e) 306.484 ms 308.383 ms 308.094 ms 23 Enterprise (2001:48c8:1:137::12) 305.924 ms 305.817 ms 307.77 ms 24 Its.continuing.mission (2001:48c8:1:137::16) 308.692 ms 316.396 ms 306 ms 25 to.explore.strange.new.worlds (2001:48c8:1:137::1a) 306.123 ms 307.447 ms 312.365 ms 26 to.seek.out.new.life.forms (2001:48c8:1:137::1e) 308.785 ms 309.842 ms 308.362 ms 27 and.new.civilizations (2001:48c8:1:137::22) 309.347 ms 315.072 ms 307.912 ms 28 to.boldly.go (2001:48c8:1:137::26) 309.336 ms 306.98 ms 309.354 ms 29 where.no.one.has.gone.before (2001:48c8:1:137::2a) 308.284 ms 311.138 ms 310.111 ms 30 . (2001:48c8:1:137::2e) 310.227 ms 309.217 ms 309.752 ms 31 EOF (2001:48c8:1:137::32) 309.623 ms 311.074 ms 313.958 ms
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- abitsios 14y agoDoesn't work for me... Strange. I tried tweaking a few flags (such as much longer timeout: -w 30), still no luck. $ traceroute -m 100 -e -w 30 obiwan.scrye.net (...all normal here...) 8 core2-te0-0-0-4.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.45) 6.795 ms core1-te0-0-0-5.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.43) 11.500 ms core1-te0-0-0-4.faraday.ukcore.bt.net (109.159.249.41) 13.669 ms 9 host213-121-193-129.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.129) 5.964 ms 6.068 ms host213-121-193-137.ukcore.bt.net (213.121.193.137) 7.362 ms 10 * * * 11 * * * 12 * * * (...and so on...)
- hartror 14y agoI have that same issue!