For network geeks, this is rather amusing… someone was obviously a bit bored some day and had a bit of fun! This was what it looked like on my Mac right now. (Hat tip to Michele Neylon for first pointing this out to me in some social media channel.)
$ traceroute bad.horse traceroute to bad.horse (162.252.205.157), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 172.20.12.100 (172.20.12.100) 0.663 ms 0.537 ms 0.277 ms 2 cpe-74-69-224-1.ne.res.rr.com (74.69.224.1) 34.913 ms 30.602 ms 28.762 ms 3 tge0-0-1.keennhfi02h.northeast.rr.com (24.31.152.17) 28.827 ms 30.120 ms 21.132 ms 4 agg47.sebgme0302r.northeast.rr.com (24.58.41.98) 19.262 ms 22.382 ms 19.438 ms 5 be25.rochnyei01r.northeast.rr.com (24.58.32.68) 30.941 ms 32.204 ms 36.969 ms 6 bu-ether35.chcgildt87w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com (107.14.19.104) 48.409 ms bu-ether45.chcgildt87w-bcr00.tbone.rr.com (107.14.19.106) 45.363 ms 46.521 ms 7 0.ae1.pr1.chi10.tbone.rr.com (107.14.17.194) 44.828 ms 46.147 ms 46.715 ms 8 216.1.94.145 (216.1.94.145) 46.134 ms 216.1.94.65 (216.1.94.65) 44.569 ms 45.409 ms 9 207.88.13.249.ptr.us.xo.net (207.88.13.249) 102.968 ms 101.157 ms 99.935 ms 10 te-4-1-0.rar3.denver-co.us.xo.net (207.88.12.22) 99.752 ms 102.249 ms 100.301 ms 11 216.156.16.3.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.16.3) 98.776 ms 97.968 ms 98.756 ms 12 216.156.1.128.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.1.128) 97.956 ms 95.644 ms 96.459 ms 13 * * * 14 166-70-1-5.xmission.com (166.70.1.5) 96.024 ms 96.826 ms 97.406 ms 15 t01.saltv1.ut.us.sn11.net (162.252.204.163) 87.981 ms 97.264 ms 86.158 ms 16 sandwichnet.dmarc.lga1.atlanticmetro.net (208.68.168.214) 89.937 ms 86.768 ms 87.949 ms 17 bad.horse (162.252.205.130) 88.073 ms 87.895 ms 86.609 ms 18 bad.horse (162.252.205.131) 93.351 ms 92.933 ms 90.876 ms 19 bad.horse (162.252.205.132) 115.629 ms 96.391 ms 96.864 ms 20 bad.horse (162.252.205.133) 101.257 ms 102.472 ms 102.213 ms 21 he.rides.across.the.nation (162.252.205.134) 108.059 ms 107.064 ms 108.290 ms 22 the.thoroughbred.of.sin (162.252.205.135) 111.206 ms 110.611 ms 109.944 ms 23 he.got.the.application (162.252.205.136) 116.866 ms 117.842 ms 115.659 ms 24 that.you.just.sent.in (162.252.205.137) 120.375 ms 123.519 ms 121.631 ms 25 it.needs.evaluation (162.252.205.138) 127.377 ms 126.769 ms 127.779 ms 26 so.let.the.games.begin (162.252.205.139) 132.761 ms 132.705 ms 131.315 ms 27 a.heinous.crime (162.252.205.140) 136.769 ms 136.045 ms 137.322 ms 28 a.show.of.force (162.252.205.141) 141.842 ms 141.447 ms 148.635 ms 29 a.murder.would.be.nice.of.course (162.252.205.142) 146.332 ms 147.854 ms 146.570 ms 30 bad.horse (162.252.205.143) 149.928 ms 150.487 ms 152.083 ms 31 bad.horse (162.252.205.144) 157.190 ms 156.693 ms 155.737 ms 32 bad.horse (162.252.205.145) 160.201 ms 161.399 ms 159.623 ms 33 he-s.bad (162.252.205.146) 166.007 ms 165.738 ms 165.244 ms 34 the.evil.league.of.evil (162.252.205.147) 171.012 ms 170.984 ms 172.062 ms 35 is.watching.so.beware (162.252.205.148) 176.041 ms 174.358 ms 176.463 ms 36 the.grade.that.you.receive (162.252.205.149) 181.276 ms 178.815 ms 180.667 ms 37 will.be.your.last.we.swear (162.252.205.150) 188.481 ms 185.823 ms 188.627 ms 38 so.make.the.bad.horse.gleeful (162.252.205.151) 194.008 ms 189.161 ms 193.114 ms 39 or.he-ll.make.you.his.mare (162.252.205.152) 198.708 ms 195.870 ms 195.894 ms 40 o_o (162.252.205.153) 200.037 ms 200.691 ms 201.280 ms 41 you-re.saddled.up (162.252.205.154) 207.748 ms 206.896 ms 205.608 ms 42 there-s.no.recourse (162.252.205.155) 211.288 ms 219.062 ms 212.026 ms 43 it-s.hi-ho.silver (162.252.205.156) 216.961 ms 218.367 ms 216.492 ms 44 signed.bad.horse (162.252.205.157) 214.262 ms 218.125 ms 215.096 ms
