This 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 wi

This 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.