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After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

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Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

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Post by loeg »

zkms wrote: post #15

This sort of endearing Internet-scale thing reminds me of how NTT changes their reverse DNS's ( 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.r0…

What about those domains says vanity reverse DNS to you? They look like bog standard location-named routers to me.

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

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Post by transitorykris »

mateus1 wrote: post #12

I am as curious as the next guy but just a link to a random graph and no explanation... Uninteresting

He'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).

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

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Post by job »

zkms wrote: post #15

This sort of endearing Internet-scale thing reminds me of how NTT changes their reverse DNS's ( 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.r0…

It might amuse you to know the same NTT people are behind the BGP Nyancat :-)

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#34

Post by job »

rcarmo wrote: post #13

OMG. 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/ , to those uninitiated - I had to double check my comment) Sir, I take my many virtual hats off to you.

Thank you for the kind words :-)

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#35

Post by okreallywtf »

na85 wrote: post #4
0xADADA wrote: post #3

Whats BGP?

A cursory Google search would have revealed that BGP is Border Gateway Protocol.

Why did people downvote a pretty appropriate snark while not downvoting a question that took longer to ask than the google search would have taken?

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#36

Post by freeflight »

Pxtl wrote: post #24
Lanzaa wrote: post #9

That is amazing. Does anyone have similar examples of weird technological art?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAbyeM2C1Oc Jump to 5:20 to hear Aphex Twin's face.

Aphex Twin's face apparently sounds like a cat meowing, didn't expect that at all lol

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#37

Post by stedaniels »

loeg wrote: post #31
zkms wrote: post #15

This sort of endearing Internet-scale thing reminds me of how NTT changes their reverse DNS's ( 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.r0…

What about those domains says vanity reverse DNS to you? They look like bog standard location-named routers to me.

"Sayonara Todd" ... Goodbye Todd

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#38

Post by jwilk »

garaetjjte wrote: post #25

In 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 comma…

Doesn't work for me:

  # traceroute -I -q 1 trh.milek7.pl
  
  connect: Network is unreachable

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#39

Post by broknbottle »

loeg wrote: post #31
zkms wrote: post #15

This sort of endearing Internet-scale thing reminds me of how NTT changes their reverse DNS's ( 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.r0…

What about those domains says vanity reverse DNS to you? They look like bog standard location-named routers to me.

Sayonara Todd

Re: After 3072 hours of manipulating BGP, a Nyancat was drawn on this RIPE interface

#40

Post by falsedan »

okreallywtf wrote: post #35
na85 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A cursory Google search would have revealed that BGP is Border Gateway Protocol.

Why did people downvote a pretty appropriate snark while not downvoting a question that took longer to ask than the google search would have taken?

Trying to encourage kind behaviour and inclusiveness?
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