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IPv4 and IPv6 traceroute fake hop generator through IP spoofing

6 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2022-08-26 · latest 2026-01-31

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  1. Totally feasible. You could do even cooler tricks, like https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute Pointless? Almost certainly.
    comment by walletdrainer · 2026-01-31 · in We have ipinfo at home or how to geolocate IPs in your CLI using latency
  2. …to an extent by adding artificial delays and possibly spoofing ICMP "TTL expired" packets like https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute
    comment by monerozcash · 2025-12-14 · in VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits
  3. Tangentially related https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute :)
    comment by walletdrainer · 2025-11-14 · in How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS
  4. …whitehouse.gov and kremlin.ru and then any chain you wanted until ttl > 192.168.0.2. EDIT: maybe https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute/blob/master/fakero...
    comment by m463 · 2023-05-01 · in The kremvax hoax (1984)
  5. This is a very old and oft-repeated trick though. https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute https://github.com/antifork/hopfake https://github.com/jprenken/rickroute https://github.com/sams-gleb/ipv4-traceroute-fake…
    comment by prvit · 2022-08-26 · in Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute
  6. That's how it's done probably https://github.com/blechschmidt/fakeroute
    comment by betaby · 2022-08-26 · in Engineer distributes resume via IPv6 traceroute