The Most Interesting Traceroute You'll Ever See
October 2, 2015
Traceroute is a tool used to identify the route through the internet to get to a specific host. For example, it identifies each router on the internet your traffic goes through to ultimately get to the destination.
Somebody has gotten pretty crafty with this to the tune of hostnames making up the lyrics to a sing-a-long.
So, fire up your traceroute utility to reveal the following to get to https://www.bad.horse/.
$ traceroute -m 60 www.bad.horse traceroute to www.bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 60 hops max, 60 byte packets ... 14 bad.horse (162.252.205.130) 88.129 ms 90.298 ms 89.070 ms 15 bad.horse (162.252.205.131) 94.405 ms 95.413 ms 94.856 ms 16 bad.horse (162.252.205.132) 91.448 ms 94.314 ms 93.262 ms 17 bad.horse (162.252.205.133) 96.539 ms 99.844 ms 97.445 ms 18 he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134) 102.760 ms 104.754 ms 101.959 ms 19 the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135) 108.662 ms 107.555 ms 110.563 ms 20 he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136) 121.791 ms 120.929 ms 120.767 ms 21 that.you.just.sent.in (162.252.205.137) 125.655 ms 121.413 ms 121.311 ms 22 it.needs.evaluation (162.252.205.138) 124.616 ms 124.660 ms 125.078 ms 23 so.let.the.games.begin (162.252.205.139) 129.267 ms 129.488 ms 128.492 ms 24 a.heinous.crime (162.252.205.140) 134.560 ms 132.682 ms 130.528 ms 25 a.show.of.force (162.252.205.141) 138.584 ms 139.772 ms 140.107 ms 26 a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course (162.252.205.142) 143.649 ms 140.593 ms 142.812 ms 27 bad.horse (162.252.205.143) 149.883 ms 147.933 ms 149.347 ms 28 bad.horse (162.252.205.144) 154.706 ms 154.384 ms 155.362 ms 29 bad.horse (162.252.205.145) 158.275 ms 158.290 ms 161.843 ms 30 he-s.bad (162.252.205.146) 176.861 ms 175.787 ms 175.306 ms 31 the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147) 170.875 ms 171.044 ms 173.591 ms 32 is.watching.so.beware (162.252.205.148) 173.244 ms 171.343 ms 172.590 ms 33 the.grade.that.you.receive (162.252.205.149) 177.845 ms 177.577 ms 175.628 ms 34 will.be.your.last.we.swear (162.252.205.150) 183.160 ms 183.181 ms 184.480 ms 35 so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful (162.252.205.151) 186.950 ms 196.349 ms 196.333 ms 36 or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare (162.252.205.152) 196.416 ms 199.639 ms 193.021 ms 37 o_o (162.252.205.153) 197.932 ms 200.381 ms 197.793 ms 38 you-re.saddled.up (162.252.205.154) 203.118 ms 205.909 ms 206.013 ms 39 there-s.no.recourse (162.252.205.155) 209.108 ms 207.221 ms 207.050 ms 40 it-s.hi-ho.silver (162.252.205.156) 213.870 ms 212.532 ms 210.742 ms 41 signed.bad.horse (162.252.205.157) 212.805 ms 214.086 ms 211.992 ms