Telling stories with traceroute!
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Traceroute becomes a storytelling medium by abusing its mechanics: TTL expired spoofing makes routers appear as extra hops, reverse DNS hostnames turn IPs into readable lines of text, and a single consumer-cloud VM plus controllable addresses — buy IPs and set PTR records — provides the actors. The implementation uses standard traceroute behavior and DNS hacks, costs roughly a few dollars per IP, and runs in the cloud; some providers (Amazon) may withhold info so parts of a story can drop out.
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