# Traceroute Haiku's

DevFeed: [Traceroute Haiku's](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/traceroute-haiku-s-41646.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/traceroute-haikus>)

Author: ben@benjojo.co.uk

Published: 2017-09-07T10:50:03Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [benjojo blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/benjojo-blog.md>)

Topics: [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/networking.md>), [Linux](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/linux.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>)

Tags: [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debug.md>), [linux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/linux.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [networking](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networking.md>)

## AI overview

A playful technical article explains how traceroute discovers routers by manipulating hop limits and reverse DNS, then describes using Linux TUN/TAP networking to create fake router hops that can spell out a haiku.

## Source excerpt

Traceroute Haiku's Sometimes I like to think that I do "serious" blog posts like "The strange case of ICMP Type 69 on Linux" or ["Anycast possibly done better"](https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post