Re: IPv6 words

[Pete Carah <pete () altadena net>]

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