On 06/23/2011 06:16 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: > On 06/23/2011 12:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: >> I am sure it has come up a number of times, but with IPv6 you can >> make up fancy addresses that are (almost) complete words or phrases. >> Making it almost as easy to remember as the resolved name. >> >> It'd be nice in a weird geek sort of way (but totally impractical) to >> be able to request IPv6 blocks that have some sort of fancy name of >> your choice. >> >> 2001:db8:dead:beef:: >> dead:beef:: >> dead::beef >> >> As seen on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_%28programming%29 >> "DEADBEEF Famously used on IBM systems such as the RS/6000, also >> used in the original Mac OS operating systems, OPENSTEP Enterprise, >> and the Commodore Amiga. On Sun Microsystems' Solaris, marks freed >> kernel memory (KMEM_FREE_PATTERN)" >> >> Bonus points if your organisation's name only contains HEX characters. >> >> Greetings, >> Jeroen >> > Not quite dead beef, but spotted this when testing connectivity using > a site from one of the rackspace guys: > > ipv6.icanhazip.com. 7200 IN AAAA > 2001:470:1f10:d57:feed:beef:cafe:d00d
like c15c:0d06:f00d seen on ipv6 day (tail end of cisco's website v6 address) (among several others with lots of deadbeef's and cafe's) -- Pete
