This is a hack that makes your machine appear (to unix traceroute) to be anywhere on the internet. Specifically, you can define a route to append to the real route that any arbitrary host on the internet would see.
P. R, K. M, M. H, K. Venugopal, and L. Patnaik. International Journal of Innovative Science and Modern Engineering (IJISME), 3 (2):
67-74(January 2015)