[142382] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 words
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William F. Maton Sotomayor)
Thu Jun 23 18:19:24 2011
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:19:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca>
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
In-Reply-To: <4E03B9DE.5020205@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
(Warning: This email contains scenes of flashbacks)
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, 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
3fff:BAD::
Seriously though, I remember playing little games like this numbering
Novell IPX network segments back in the 1990's. After IP came on the
network I think I was accussed of polluting pristine IPX nets....then...
I'll stop now. ;-)
wfms
