Post by @april@macaw.social

@april@macaw.social TIL that when I try this on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS not only do i need to install traceroute but I need to add —resolve-hostnames to see them Since when do we not install network utils on a Linux distribution by default?

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@jchaven@social.sdf.org 2024-05-01 02:29

@april@macaw.social Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNhhz1yYk2U

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@InnerAlien@mastodon.social 2024-05-01 02:51

@april@macaw.social This makes me all kinds of happy. Thanks for sharing!

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@hendric@astronomy.city 2024-05-01 02:57

@april@macaw.social Hahaha, love it.

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@StarkRG@myside-yourside.net 2024-05-01 03:06

@april@macaw.social Reminds me of the Star Wars text crawl traceroute which then reminds me of the ASCII art Star Wars telnet server (which is now a web page). It's been many years, and I'm not near a proper computer so I can't check to see if it's still functioning. https://www.theregister.com/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/

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@pseudonym@mastodon.online 2024-05-01 03:09

@april@macaw.social Thanks for the blast from the past. For some reason I had it in my head it was the "Stallion of Sin" - probably for the alliteration - but it's not

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@401matthall@mastodon.xyz 2024-05-01 03:20

@april@macaw.social This is the kind of brilliance that the internet is _for_.

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@coriander@elekk.xyz 2024-05-01 03:32

@april@macaw.social Oh man I'm so glad this still works

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@mazzoo@fulda.social 2024-05-01 05:46

@april@macaw.social % host 162.252.205.153 153.205.252.162.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer o_o.

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@Suran@toot.cat 2024-05-01 06:58

@april@macaw.social Indeed. Someone had fun here. Does the content section of ICMP packets for echo requests reaching their TTL contain the hostname?

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@sa7dse@chaos.social 2024-05-01 07:26

@april@macaw.social And they did it in TLS as well: openssl s_client -connect signed.bad.horse:443 -servername signed.bad.horse

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@f2k1de@cuties.social 2024-05-01 07:33

@april@macaw.social @alina@girldick.gay what a waste of ip

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@anagnostes@mstdn.io 2024-05-01 07:46

@april@macaw.social I had to VPN to the USA to make it work properly.

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@andypiper@macaw.social 2024-05-01 09:26

@april@macaw.social This is Incredible! Thank you for sharing!

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@horse@infosec.exchange 2024-05-01 09:51

@april@macaw.social Paging @badhorse@infosec.exchange

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@pieceofthepie@social.n8e.dev 2024-05-01 09:57

@april@macaw.social amazing.

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@ellcrys@det.social 2024-05-01 11:18

@april@macaw.social

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@afastaudir8@mastodon.online 2024-05-01 11:26

@april@macaw.social This is funny

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@dan613@ottawa.place 2024-05-01 11:31

@april@macaw.social That's been running since at least 2015. I'm surprised it isn't more widely known. I didn't learn of it myself until about 6 months ago.

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@podfeet@chaos.social 2024-05-01 13:22

@april@macaw.social This is why I love people.

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@zorinlynx@tiggi.es 2024-05-01 14:42

@april@macaw.social Your first hop router is called "despair" and that's such a perfect metaphor for the Internet lately…

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@Rejax@blimps.xyz 2024-05-01 15:08

@april@macaw.social I'm surprised that's still there after all these years!

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@domi@donotsta.re 2024-05-01 17:52

@april@macaw.social i love how your first hop is named despair

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@a@pdx.social 2024-05-01 23:32

@april@macaw.social @Verso@mastodon.social All those unnecessary hops and the latency is still better than getting off my DSL line. 😭

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