The Nerdy Sixty | (42/60) Traceroute to a Galaxy Far Away | Solution

Run a traceroute that reveals a Star Wars story in the router names. What host should you traceroute?

Hint 1: Use traceroute with lots of hops on a host related to Obi-Wan.

Hint 2: `traceroute -m 100 obiwan.scrye.net` will start revealing something in the hop names.

Solution:

If you run a traceroute to obiwan.scrye.net (e.g., `traceroute -m 254 -q1 obiwan.scrye.net`), the router hostnames form the Star Wars Episode IV opening text (“Episode.IV”, “A.NEW.HOPE”, etc.). Continue far enough and you’ll even see a Rickroll (Never Gonna Give You Up) in the later hop names!