Entropy Reducers Amalgamated

Well, a little while ago I noticed that Verizon was breaking traceroute (a very useful network debugging tool).

Well, now, Verizon seems to have seen the error of their ways (?!) and allowed us to see our network paths:

-bash-3.2$ /usr/sbin/traceroute www.google.com
traceroute: Warning: www.google.com has multiple addresses; using 64.233.169.103
traceroute to www.google.com (64.233.169.103), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  fw-gw.3phasecomputing.com (192.168.xxx.yyy)  0.673 ms  0.532 ms  0.511 ms
 2  98.113.45.1 (98.113.zzz.aaa)  5.012 ms  4.208 ms  4.495 ms
 3  G4-0-0-1955.LCR-09.NYCMNY.verizon-gni.net (130.81.137.34)  5.021 ms  5.199 ms  5.033 ms
 4  130.81.29.236 (130.81.29.236)  5.297 ms  5.569 ms  5.028 ms
 5  0.so-4-3-0.XL4.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.10.29)  5.561 ms  5.464 ms  5.837 ms
 6  0.ge-5-1-0.BR3.NYC4.ALTER.NET (152.63.3.118)  7.157 ms  6.812 ms  6.638 ms
 7  te-10-2-0.edge2.NewYork2.level3.net (4.68.110.233)  14.080 ms  14.803 ms  13.822 ms
 8  vlan69.csw1.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.16.62)  19.441 ms vlan79.csw2.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.16.126)  15.586 ms vlan89.csw3.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.68.16.190)  24.895 ms
 9  ae-74-74.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.117)  23.574 ms ae-84-84.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.121)  17.200 ms ae-74-74.ebr4.NewYork1.Level3.net (4.69.134.117)  16.937 ms
10  ae-3.ebr4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.132.93)  24.887 ms  17.200 ms  18.345 ms
11  ae-94-94.csw4.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.190)  20.201 ms ae-63-63.csw1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.69.134.162)  15.321 ms  14.534 ms
12  ae-1-69.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.68.17.16)  134.966 ms  13.450 ms  13.546 ms
13  GOOGLE-INC.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.79.231.6)  13.812 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.79.228.38)  13.720 ms GOOGLE-INC.edge1.Washington1.Level3.net (4.79.231.6)  14.268 ms
14  64.233.175.171 (64.233.175.171)  14.524 ms 64.233.175.169 (64.233.175.169)  14.088 ms  14.066 ms
15  216.239.49.149 (216.239.49.149)  16.987 ms 216.239.49.145 (216.239.49.145)  17.781 ms 216.239.49.149 (216.239.49.149)  17.519 ms
16  yo-in-f103.google.com (64.233.169.103)  14.319 ms  13.705 ms  14.092 ms

Posted by Jerry B. Altzman at 1:28 PM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

So...have you seen the old new MSN spim (Spam for IM) going around? It looks like:

(2008-08-13 09:32:10) albaketapy@hotmail.com: Hey Jerry%20B.%20Altzman .....I cant upload my pics to msn for some reason! Hit me back up on http://xxxxxx.blogspot.com

(I've obfuscated the first part of the blogspot URL, since I don't want to drive traffic there.) Evidently, I'm not the only one who's seen this, and it's not particularly new, but no one seems to have a good solid idea what this is. I've received about a dozen of these, all from Hotmail (MSN) addresses:

$ grep -cri 'Hit me back up' *|grep -v '0$'
agnessopyby@hotmail.com/2008-08-11.032149-0400EDT.txt:1
albaketapy@hotmail.com/2008-08-13.093210-0400EDT.txt:1
annefogabem@hotmail.com/2008-08-11.103216-0400EDT.txt:1
elisecokaw@hotmail.com/2008-08-12.182304-0400EDT.txt:1
genevievenugimox@hotmail.com/2008-08-12.231241-0400EDT.txt:1
jennylevyv@hotmail.com/2008-08-13.032007-0400EDT.txt:1
lessielydoc@hotmail.com/2008-08-10.235141-0400EDT.txt:1
lorenanunecaz@hotmail.com/2008-08-12.204747-0400EDT.txt:1
nanettepusun@hotmail.com/2008-08-11.080932-0400EDT.txt:1
nanettepusun@hotmail.com/2008-08-13.070848-0400EDT.txt:1
phoebecytol@hotmail.com/2008-08-11.054531-0400EDT.txt:1
robertcopow@hotmail.com/2008-08-12.155737-0400EDT.txt:1

Posted by Jerry B. Altzman at 9:46 AM | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)