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by wmf 1388 days ago
If you return fake IPs in a traceroute you won't be able to control the reverse DNS which is the point of this exercise.
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You can however control the IPs, so you can pick IPs with funny nsa.gov/.mil/fbi rdns (and matching forward records).
I understood this current thread to be another, separate, stupid ICMP trick. I wouldn't think the two tricks can be combined.