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
Paul
