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