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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 detaro »

shmageggy wrote: post #27
colonelxc wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From their About us page: "We’re the Regional Internet Registry for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia. As such, we allocate and register blocks of Internet number resources to Internet service providers (ISPs) and other organisations." This interface is the historical bgp announcements for this particular ASN. The X access is time. The Y axis is ip address blocks.

So some employee at an ISP registered IP addresses over time in such a way as to create this pattern? Kind of like how people make art out of their github commits [1] (only without the ability to retroactively modify the dates)? https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti

Nearly, but they didn't register them, they just had their network announce routes for them (which is just telling other networks "hi, if you have traffic for this IP range I can send it on", the registration is unrelated to that)

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

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Post by pyre »

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 seem to work anymore, but there was this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5192656

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

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Post by mateus1 »

transitorykris wrote: post #32
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).

Thanks for this. Appreciate the response I wasn't complaining about the content, just the lack of context.

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

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Post by AckSyn »

stestagg wrote: post #42
okreallywtf wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Post gave off bad vibes. Bad vibes make people unhappy. Unhappy people make the internet have more bad vibes ..

Feels before reals. Got it.

In a somewhat related "vibe", it's only the less "polite" way of pointing out the obvious: typing that question out in the address/search bar will get the question answered significantly quicker than a forum.

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

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Post by zkms »

jgg7 wrote: post #79
pas wrote: post #73

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The prefixes are probably announced in aggregated form anyhow further upstream. The announcements and deannouncements are/were therefore redundant. At least't that's my hunch. We could check the same monitor though :)

AS15562 appears to be an employee of NTT out of the Netherlands. I can't tell if AS15562 is for personal or work, maybe both: http://bgp.he.net/AS15562 I couldn't care less about the IPv6 prefixes, but the IPv4 ones are all /24s made from 209.24.0.0/16, which is registered to NTT (AS2914). 209.24/16 is publicly announced (and has been for a very long time), and is routed through NTT Amsterdam routers. I haven't looke…

> it doesn't (publicly) "look good" when we're living in a world that lacks (or has greatly limited) v4 space. What this says is: "NTT has a /16 they're fooling around with publicly", even though it (presumably) is harmless.

NTT is one of the larger Tier 1 ISPs. Having some unused IPv4 address space is a good thing when you're such a huge network operator -- it means you can dedicate some globally-routed IPs for testing/prototyping/renumbering and also have some extra IP space for new devices. Given what happens to ISPs that run out of IPs, I am frankly glad NTT has enough free IPs to fool around with nyan cats.

If NTT was dragging its feet on IPv6, then yeah, such a stunt might look awkward, but NTT hasn't -- they've been on the forefront of IPv6 for a while. AFAICT they were the first to offer commercial IPv6 connectivity and their global IP network has been native IPv4/IPv6 since 2004, and anecdotally I see their routers in my IPv6 traceroutes all the time.

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

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Post by hueving »

okreallywtf wrote: post #62
martin-adams wrote: post #56

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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…

On a technical newsfeed almost every story is littered with jargon and a ton of them I don't know what an acronym means. Not only is the correct wikipedia article the 1st result, Google actually includes the start of the definition right into the search. Its fine to ask, especially when its a generic acronym but that was not the case. Its a bad habit to get into and I speak from experience, spend a couple minutes on…

It takes less effort to Google it than to ask it here, so it's not laziness.

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

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Post by c3534l »

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.

That's my favorite kind of art. It really is art done for it's own sake, for the creativity of it. It's its own motivation.

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

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Post by jameskegel »

job wrote: post #66
AceJohnny2 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

... 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? :)

PC Engines APU2 with openbsd

I'm glad people like you are part of the community.. Really cool project!

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

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Post by a_imho »

Lanzaa wrote: post #9

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

student sketches the main building of the university on the BIX ipv6 traffic graph

http://kep.cdn.indexvas.hu/1/0/409/4091/40917/4091708_d30ae9...

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