Network Engineer · Track 04
Destination Unreachable
Samuel Heinrich
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Pulse
Destination unreachable.
Time exceeded.
No reply.
Packet lost.
Blackhole route.
TTL expired.
Trace the path.
Hop by hop.
No return.
Spoken
I sent a signal into the core.
It crossed the edge and vanished.
No alarm.
No answer.
Only silence from the next hop.
Hook
Where did the packet go?
Nobody knows.
Where did the packet go?
The blackhole grows.
Send it again.
Watch it fall.
Destination unreachable.
No route at all.
Verse 2
Traceroute counting through the dark,
every hop leaves a fading mark.
Firewall quiet, routing cold,
one lost prefix breaks the road.
Echo request into the night,
echo reply stays out of sight.
Metrics shift and tables turn,
still no path for the packet to return.
Break
TTL expired.
Next hop gone.
Silent gateway.
Moving on.
ICMP.
No reply.
Packets fall.
Signals die.
Final Hook
Where did the packet go?
Nobody knows.
Where did the packet go?
The blackhole grows.
Send it again.
Watch it fall.
Destination unreachable.
No route at all.
Finale
Destination unreachable.
Destination unreachable.
Destination unreachable.
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