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Comment by garaetjjte | Hacker News Reader

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 commands.

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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

not as cool, but on a similar note:

  traceroute -m 50 bad.horse

I see a poem, but I'm not sure I get it. What am I missing/not-appreciating here?

It's a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of9kHpCv1ts

Doesn't work for me:

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

Are you sure that you have IPv6?. I don't have 60k addresses to do it on IPv4 :)

I was sure the machine I was testing this on had IPv6. I was wrong. Ooopsie. How can I downvote myself?

Doesn't seem to work anymore, but there was this:

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

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