On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Pete Carah wrote: > 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)
and face:b00c, dead:babe, I think there are actually quite a few of these. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
