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Re: IPv6 words
From: Paul Graydon <paul () paulgraydon co uk>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:16:28 -1000
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.Not quite dead beef, but spotted this when testing connectivity using a site from one of the rackspace guys: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
ipv6.icanhazip.com. 7200 IN AAAA 2001:470:1f10:d57:feed:beef:cafe:d00d
Paul
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- IPv6 words Jeroen van Aart (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words Paul Graydon (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words Pete Carah (Jun 23)
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- Re: IPv6 words Pete Carah (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words William F. Maton Sotomayor (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words William Herrin (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words Jeroen van Aart (Jun 23)
- Re: IPv6 words Bjoern A. Zeeb (Jun 24)
- Re: IPv6 words Leo Bicknell (Jun 24)
- Re: IPv6 words Joel Jaeggli (Jun 24)
- Re: IPv6 words Leo Bicknell (Jun 24)
- RE: IPv6 words Mike Walter (Jun 24)
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