Re: IPv6 words

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

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