Internet Easter Egg

[drebo]

Run "tracert -h 66 216.81.59.173" on your Windows machine or "traceroute -m 66 216.81.59.173" on Linux.

Make sure you're not filtering ICMP.

Do it.

Now.

 

[McLovin]

That's fucking awesome!

How did you find out about this?

 

[bignateyk]

I see something like read.more.at.beagle.....

Then it gets through two hops and times out. Am I missing something?

 

[ImpulsE69]

Holy wow...someone was bored.

Here's what it does:

Spoiler

12 89 ms 87 ms 92 ms Episode.IV [206.214.251.1]
13 86 ms 88 ms 90 ms A.NEW.HOPE [206.214.251.6]
14 86 ms 85 ms 85 ms It.is.a.period.of.civil.war [206.214.251.9]
15 91 ms 87 ms 91 ms Rebel.spaceships [206.214.251.14]
16 85 ms 87 ms 88 ms striking.from.a.hidden.base [206.214.251.17]
17 90 ms 88 ms 88 ms have.won.their.first.victory [206.214.251.22]
18 86 ms 86 ms 90 ms against.the.evil.Galactic.Empire [206.214.251.2
]
19 88 ms 85 ms 85 ms During.the.battle [206.214.251.30]
20 88 ms 90 ms 91 ms Rebel.spies.managed [206.214.251.33]
21 86 ms 85 ms 90 ms to.steal.secret.plans [206.214.251.38]
22 106 ms 88 ms 87 ms to.the.Empires.ultimate.weapon [206.214.251.41]

23 104 ms 86 ms 84 ms the.DEATH.STAR [206.214.251.46]
24 106 ms 106 ms 93 ms an.armored.space.station [206.214.251.49]
25 90 ms 90 ms 91 ms with.enough.power.to [206.214.251.54]
26 89 ms 89 ms 89 ms destroy.an.entire.planet [206.214.251.57]
27 90 ms 89 ms 88 ms Pursued.by.the.Empires [206.214.251.62]
28 89 ms 86 ms 90 ms sinister.agents [206.214.251.65]
29 90 ms 91 ms 89 ms Princess.Leia.races.home [206.214.251.70]
30 89 ms 93 ms 98 ms aboard.her.starship [206.214.251.73]
31 90 ms 90 ms 86 ms custodian.of.the.stolen.plans [206.214.251.78]
32 89 ms 89 ms 86 ms that.can.save.her [206.214.251.81]
33 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms people.and.restore [206.214.251.86]
34 89 ms 96 ms 88 ms freedom.to.the.galaxy [206.214.251.89]
35 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms 0-----I-------I-----0 [206.214.251.94]
36 90 ms 93 ms 99 ms 0------------------0 [206.214.251.97]
37 87 ms 90 ms 90 ms 0-----------------0 [206.214.251.102]
38 86 ms 92 ms 89 ms 0----------------0 [206.214.251.105]
39 88 ms 93 ms 86 ms 0---------------0 [206.214.251.110]
40 89 ms 94 ms 93 ms 0--------------0 [206.214.251.113]
41 106 ms 96 ms 140 ms 0-------------0 [206.214.251.118]
42 90 ms 105 ms 87 ms 0------------0 [206.214.251.121]
43 91 ms 122 ms 89 ms 0-----------0 [206.214.251.126]
44 104 ms 89 ms 88 ms 0----------0 [206.214.251.129]
45 90 ms 114 ms 92 ms 0---------0 [206.214.251.134]
46 99 ms 91 ms 90 ms 0--------0 [206.214.251.137]
47 90 ms 91 ms 93 ms 0-------0 [206.214.251.142]
48 92 ms 91 ms 90 ms 0------0 [206.214.251.145]
49 87 ms 93 ms 89 ms 0-----0 [206.214.251.150]
50 94 ms 90 ms 94 ms 0----0 [206.214.251.153]
51 95 ms 91 ms 105 ms 0---0 [206.214.251.158]
52 93 ms 88 ms 92 ms 0--0 [206.214.251.161]
53 92 ms 90 ms 90 ms 0-0 [206.214.251.166]
54 88 ms 117 ms 88 ms 00 [206.214.251.169]
55 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms I [206.214.251.174]
56 89 ms 130 ms 89 ms By.Ryan.Werber [206.214.251.177]
57 89 ms 97 ms 91 ms Never.Gonna.Give.You.Up [206.214.251.182]
58 88 ms 91 ms 90 ms Never.Gonna.Let.You.Down [206.214.251.185]
59 90 ms 90 ms 90 ms read.more.at.beaglenetworks.net [216.81.59.173]

 

[purbeast0]

is this bad to do at work? i just did it and stopped it realizing i have no clue wtf i'm doing with a traceroute call.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I see something like read.more.at.beagle.....

Then it gets through two hops and times out. Am I missing something?

Yes, you're missing the entire thing.

 

[waggy]

whoa...

 

[ImpulsE69]

is this bad to do at work? i just did it and stopped it realizing i have no clue wtf i'm doing with a traceroute call.

No, it should be fine. It's just looking up the hops to an IP.

 

[cronos]

Can't believe this hasn't been on ATOT yet.

Here's the original post, five days ago: http://beaglenetworks.net/post/42707829171/star-wars-traceroute

 

[waggy]

damnit i keep getting timed out.

heh

 

[rwerber]

Its still blocked at a few major ISP's from the ddos that it got hit with on sunday night.

The whole story is on my blog at beaglenetworks.net

 

[dud]

That's fucking awesome!

How did you find out about this?

Dude ... you need to find a girlfriend.


If you think this is "awesome" you should consider women ... they can be much more awesome.

 

[McLovin]

But let's not turn this into a babe thread.

 

[Red Squirrel]

OMG that is freaking awesome! I wonder how they did that, because each one of those routers would need to be "internet routers" with an actual valid internet IP, and physical connectivity, as opposed to something you could just setup at home. That's just freaking awesome.

Reminds me of Star Wars telnet. Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl to see it. That's been up for over 10 years, awesome that it's actually still there.


Edit: Hmm actually I think I know how it was done, they probably just owns a large chunk of IPs so they could probably just do it with VMs and subnet it for each router network.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

That's pretty clever. I like.

 

[dighn]

clever

 

[RagingBITCH]

Can't get to it at work for me

 

[BillGates]

I don't get the Rick Roll on my traces...my Rick Roll filters must be working!

 

[AmdEmAll]

Not working for me

 

[drebo]

OMG that is freaking awesome! I wonder how they did that, because each one of those routers would need to be "internet routers" with an actual valid internet IP, and physical connectivity, as opposed to something you could just setup at home. That's just freaking awesome.

Reminds me of Star Wars telnet. Telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl to see it. That's been up for over 10 years, awesome that it's actually still there.


Edit: Hmm actually I think I know how it was done, they probably just owns a large chunk of IPs so they could probably just do it with VMs and subnet it for each router network.

Actually, you could do it all on one router with VRFs. The main thing is the IP space, which you'd need at least a /25 to do it.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Actually, you could do it all on one router with VRFs. The main thing is the IP space, which you'd need at least a /25 to do it.

Why don't you just ask him? He posted in the thread.:awe:

 

[rwerber]

Why don't you just ask him? He posted in the thread.:awe:

hi!

its all explained on my website however a quick synopsis is that its a lot of VRF's on two Cisco 1841 routers. I had an unused /24 from an ISP i do work for and i borrowed its reverse DNS. It runs out of my basement - however you would need access to authoritative DNS for the reverse zone. The IP addresses are not actually routed to me, but because they are valid to go outside of the ISP, the TTL expiration gets routed all the way back to you.

As for it not working everywhere, I know - I'm sorry. You can submit a request to your ISP to have them remove blocking for 216.81.59.173. You know the first thing they are going to do when they check that is a traceroute.. which makes it that much more funny!

You guys can ask me anything on my website..

 

[halik]

hah clever

 

[FelixDeCat]

Its still blocked at a few major ISP's from the ddos that it got hit with on sunday night.

The whole story is on my blog at beaglenetworks.net

I read it and it was interesting. Who in the world would bother trying to block you from the internet? It was just a harmless little treat and someone thought they had to disrupt it?

Lack of morals these days, sheesh!

 

[Red Squirrel]

hi!

its all explained on my website however a quick synopsis is that its a lot of VRF's on two Cisco 1841 routers. I had an unused /24 from an ISP i do work for and i borrowed its reverse DNS. It runs out of my basement - however you would need access to authoritative DNS for the reverse zone. The IP addresses are not actually routed to me, but because they are valid to go outside of the ISP, the TTL expiration gets routed all the way back to you.

As for it not working everywhere, I know - I'm sorry. You can submit a request to your ISP to have them remove blocking for 216.81.59.173. You know the first thing they are going to do when they check that is a traceroute.. which makes it that much more funny!

You guys can ask me anything on my website..

Ha that's pretty awesome. Not everyone gets to have access to a full /24. :awe: Never heard of VRF till now either, that's pretty cool, need to read up more on that. Funny I actually have two Cisco 1841's sitting here. I need to play with those some time.


Also lot of ISPs block ICMP packets for customers, so for some of you that it does not work, probably why. Mine actually used to block ICMP but it seems it works now. I had tried it figuring it would not work.