Here's what it looks like:<p><pre><code> $ traceroute cv6.poinsignon.org
traceroute to cv6.poinsignon.org (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::ff), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1 gateway 0.795 ms 0.789 ms
[...]
8 hello (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::1) 1.431 ms 1.202 ms
9 My.name.is.Louis.Poinsignon (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::2) 1.649 ms 1.274 ms
10 I.am.a.network.and.systems.Engineer (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::3) 1.695 ms 2.090 ms
11 This.is.my.resume.over.traceroute (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::4) 1.698 ms 1.793 ms
12 o---Experience---o (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::) 1.829 ms 2.052 ms
13 2018.Cloudflare.NetworkEngineer.SF (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf3) 2.261 ms 2.155 ms
14 2017.Cloudflare.NetworkEngineer.London (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf2) 2.293 ms 1.284 ms
15 2016.Cloudflare.NetworkEngineer.Intern.SF (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cf1) 1.136 ms 1.205 ms
16 2015.CEA.SoftwareEngineer.Intern.France (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ee::cea) 1.204 ms 1.226 ms
17 o---Education---o (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::) 1.360 ms 1.607 ms
18 2015-2016.DrexelUni.Exchange.CE.Philadelphia (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::1) 1.237 ms 1.312 ms
19 2011-2016.UTT.Master.CE.France (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:ed::2) 1.492 ms 1.604 ms
20 o---Skills---o (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::) 1.565 ms 1.418 ms
21 C.Java.Python.Golang (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::1) 1.364 ms 1.536 ms
22 Net.Linux.Automation (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::2) 1.381 ms 1.266 ms
23 Statistics.Maths.Photoshop (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:51::3) 1.504 ms 1.431 ms
24 o---Various---o (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:7a::) 1.461 ms 1.519 ms
25 Swimming.and.karate (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:7a::1) 1.378 ms 1.473 ms
26 Piano (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:7a::2) 1.552 ms 1.683 ms
27 o---Contact---o (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:c0::) 1.551 ms 1.486 ms
28 mail.jobs.at.poinsignon.org (2001:bc8:3eff:c0:c0::1) 1.576 ms 1.473 ms</code></pre>
Great, but not Bad Horse great.<p><a href="https://www.a2wd.com/traceroute-bad-horse/" rel="nofollow">https://www.a2wd.com/traceroute-bad-horse/</a>
I’d like to imagine one of the troubleshooting steps for Cloudflare’s help desk when they see an uptick in customer service disruption complaints is to hit up Louis to ask if he’s updating his resume again.
An old hack.<p>For the history books, IIRC <i>proff</i> (Julian Assange) presented this hack in 1997, shortly after he wrote <i>strobe.c</i> (1995; AFAIK the first TCP half-open scanner). Here's a 1998 public posting of the code: <a href="https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/12995/fakeroute.c.html" rel="nofollow">https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/12995/fakeroute.c.html</a><p>At that time, the running joke was to provide inbound traceroutes spoofed next hops which implied you were working for a government agency (the Australian Federal Police, the Defence Signals Directorate (now Australian Signals Directorate) or the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (now the Defence Science and Technology Group)).<p>Free Julian.
Some CTO guy who I work with does this with the password for internal docs. He thinks he is 1337.<p>How long will it take, until someone gains access? I consider this an intentional security leak.
I wonder if these things ever pay off, or if it just ends up attracting a lot of opportunities to be part of a normal application system where it's a one-way system of proving your worth to the company?
I recall seeing something similar a while back, you'd traceroute to some IP address and the output was the opening text of a star wars movie <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/" rel="nofollow">https://www.theregister.com/2013/02/15/star_wars_traceroute/</a>
Doesn't work properly here, I get a very local IPv6, then one row of stars, then the third hop is the destination?<p><pre><code> % traceroute6 -w1 cv6.poinsignon.org
traceroute to cv6.poinsignon.org (2001:bc8:3eff:c0::ff), 30 hops max, 80 byte packets
1 2a01:x:x:x::1 (2a01:x:x:x::1) 0.794 ms 0.913 ms 0.737 ms
2 * * *
3 2001:bc8:3eff::1 (2001:bc8:3eff::1) 39.555 ms 39.668 ms 39.560 ms
</code></pre>
Not sure why "traceroute6" stops at the "...::1" but "mtr" shows an equivalent 3-hop route but actually shows "...::ff" for the third and final hop? (Edit: Using "-I" with "traceroute6" makes the third and final hop also show up as "::ff". Strange that ICMP vs UDP would give different IP addresses for the final hop?)
Funnily enough he didn't bother to put something in his default htdocs directory : <a href="https://poinsignon.org/" rel="nofollow">https://poinsignon.org/</a>
See also the IPv6 bible: <a href="https://website.peterjin.org/wiki/IPv6_Bible" rel="nofollow">https://website.peterjin.org/wiki/IPv6_Bible</a>