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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 [deleted] »

jwilk wrote: post #38
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

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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 beckler »

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…

not as cool, but on a similar note:

  traceroute -m 50 bad.horse

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

#53

Post by loeg »

stedaniels wrote: post #37
loeg wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"Sayonara Todd" ... Goodbye Todd

Who is Todd?

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

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Post by zx2c4 »

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…

This is awesome. Very well done.

     8  points.22 (2001:470:1f13:202:c000::16)  20.135 ms
     9  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.071 ms
    10  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.108 ms
    11  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.109 ms
    12  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.113 ms
    13  I---XXXX---I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000:0:333:3000)  20.132 ms
    14  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.120 ms
    15  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.098 ms
    16  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  20.097 ms
    17  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.422 ms
    18  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.262 ms
    19  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.280 ms
    20  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.279 ms
    21  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.267 ms
    22  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.268 ms
    23  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.211 ms
    24  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.193 ms
    25  I----------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::)  17.187 ms
    26  I---O------I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000::1000)  17.219 ms
    27  I---OO--O--I (2001:470:1f13:202:8000:0:1001:1000)  17.306 ms
    28  IOOOOO--OOOI (2001:470:1f13:202:8000:11:1001:1111)  17.036 ms
    29  IIIIIIIIIIII (2001:470:1f13:202::)  16.975 ms

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

#56

Post by martin-adams »

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?

I 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.

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

#58

Post by zkms »

job wrote: post #46
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…

On April 1st 2015 I tried to create new poems by remixing an existing body of work through reverse DNS: https://bandaancha.eu/foros/april-fools-ntt-1717230 - the original was better perhaps ;-)

I like it a lot. There's something quite endearing about seeing human-legible text (beyond city names / interface names) in reverse DNS.

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

#59

Post by AceJohnny2 »

job wrote: post #34
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 :-)

... 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? :)

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