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traceroute bad.horse

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13 bad.horse (162.252.205.130) 163.913 ms 163.985 ms 164.169 ms
14 bad.horse (162.252.205.131) 166.228 ms 169.604 ms 168.837 ms
15 bad.horse (162.252.205.132) 172.249 ms 174.163 ms 172.610 ms
16 bad.horse (162.252.205.133) 179.319 ms 179.022 ms 177.816 ms
17 he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134) 185.482 ms 185.484 ms 185.454 ms
18 the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135) 191.354 ms 191.344 ms 191.326 ms
19 he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136) 197.463 ms 197.449 ms 197.421 ms
20 that.you.just.sent.in (162.252.205.137) 203.248 ms 203.233 ms 203.213 ms
21 it.needs.evaluation (162.252.205.138) 211.255 ms 211.224 ms 211.161 ms
22 so.let.the.games.begin (162.252.205.139) 209.954 ms 207.521 ms 209.956 ms
23 a.heinous.crime (162.252.205.140) 215.252 ms 215.207 ms 215.197 ms
24 a.show.of.force (162.252.205.141) 221.786 ms 221.764 ms 221.738 ms
25 a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course (162.252.205.142) 226.529 ms 226.508 ms 226.482 ms
26 bad.horse (162.252.205.143) 232.953 ms 232.928 ms 232.903 ms
27 bad.horse (162.252.205.144) 239.622 ms 233.570 ms 233.537 ms
28 bad.horse (162.252.205.145) 238.506 ms 238.428 ms 238.412 ms
29 he-s.bad (162.252.205.146) 245.090 ms 244.405 ms 244.384 ms

30 the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147) 250.136 ms 250.135 ms 250.126 ms

... incidentally this reminds me of traceroute reply spoofing which I first saw demonstrated by Julian Assange at Seccon in Sydney in 1997.

there's more...

33 the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147) 98.387 ms 101.924 ms 98.823 ms

34 is.watching.so.beware (162.252.205.148) 108.986 ms 107.006 ms 109.290 ms

35 the.grade.that.you.receive (162.252.205.149) 110.415 ms 111.538 ms 111.534 ms

36 will.be.your.last.we.swear (162.252.205.150) 116.764 ms 121.798 ms 119.857 ms

37 so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful (162.252.205.151) 146.249 ms 119.684 ms 122.069 ms

38 or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare (162.252.205.152) 127.184 ms 123.016 ms 123.638 ms

39 o_o (162.252.205.153) 135.653 ms 133.474 ms 133.790 ms

40 you-re.saddled.up (162.252.205.154) 138.263 ms 137.055 ms 134.297 ms

41 there-s.no.recourse (162.252.205.155) 138.434 ms 139.004 ms 137.495 ms

42 it-s.hi-ho.silver (162.252.205.156) 150.319 ms 145.497 ms 149.632 ms

43 signed.bad.horse (162.252.205.157) 147.734 ms 151.973 ms 167.310 ms

What about playing tetris via traceroute?

    traceroute -I -q 1 -m 60 trh.milek7.gq

Each traceroute will print actual board state and move current piece by one line. To control, supply chars to trh subdomain: w-rotate, a-move left, d-move right, s-drop. It is possible to stack commands, eg.: traceroute to waas.trh.milek7.gq rotates current piece, moves two positions left and drops piece. ICMP mode (-I) is strongly recommended, on UDP ttl values somehow gets mangled and duplicated. IPv6 required (it would require HUGE amounts of ip addresses).

So this is where all the IPv4 space went!

In all seriousness, it only uses a single IP address for each line, so 28 addresses. Somewhat wasteful, but not the end of the world.

The cert for https://signed.bad.horse/ is pretty good, too.

Link seems to bring me to the comments. Cannot find/access the story.

Run the command `traceroute bad.horse` or Windows `tracert bad.horse`

In somewhat similar vein: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

Nice little story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O03k0DV2m1k

If anyone's not familiar with the reference.

Now I want to watch the movie

How poetic.

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