Some people own too much hardware

October 23, 2013 10:36 PM

Some people have too much time on their hands and too much hardware: Try doing a tracert to 216.81.59.173
posted by Chocolate Pickle (5 comments total)

doing a full traceroute gives you these:

60 please.try.again.tracerote.to.obiwan.scrye.net (206.214.251.185) 149.073 ms 142.306 ms 142.216 ms
61 read.more.at.beaglenetworks.net (206.214.251.190) 164.372 ms * 388.281 ms

(yes, 61 steps from my machine.)

The followup appears to add in the crawls from Empire and Jedi...
posted by mephron at 10:52 PM on October 23, 2013

It's done with some kind of virtual routing that pingpongs between two Cisco routers.
posted by zsazsa at 10:52 PM on October 23, 2013 [1 favorite]

Route Traced.
posted by juv3nal at 11:10 PM on October 23, 2013

101  Never.gonna.give.you.up (206.214.251.225)  105.063 ms  103.733 ms  103.662 ms
102  Never.gonna.let.you.down (206.214.251.230)  103.443 ms  104.626 ms  104.419 ms
103  Never.gonna.run.around.and.desert.you (206.214.251.233)  104.473 ms  103.999 ms  104.963 ms
104  Never.gonna.make.you.cry (206.214.251.238)  104.193 ms  105.244 ms  103.438 ms
105  Never.gonna.say.goodbye (206.214.251.241)  104.826 ms  104.672 ms  103.898 ms
106  Never.gonna.tell.a.lie.and.hurt.you (206.214.251.246)  104.469 ms  103.622 ms  104.176 ms

posted by and for no one at 11:12 PM on October 23, 2013 [4 favorites]

and when the world starts discussing how we're running out of ip4 address space, this is the thread i will think back on.
posted by el io at 11:17 PM on October 23, 2013 [3 favorites]