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The IPv6 address is 128 bits, divided into a 64 bit network portion and a 64 bit host portion. The network portion is so large that organizations are generally issued a block of 256 or more, in order to let each geographic site have a unique prefix. Therefore the admins get to control the lower 8 or more bits of the address advertised to the world via DNS... and many people are using tired old deca:fbad and c0ed:babe addresses. This is our chance! Its a brave new world, with huge swaths of IP address space available, and we should make the most of it. Presented here for your edification and bemusement are suggested choices for the lower bits of IPv6 network addresses. | |
| a110:c8ed | I allocated an address, just for you. |
| defa:ced | I hate my web designer. |
| bad:fac:ade | Our CSS needs work. |
| bad:deed | Thank you for visiting my site. Really. |
| be:fa11 | As in "what has befallen yon dead server?" |
| abba:ca:daba | Our network is powered by pure magic. |
| d00:bee | Network debugging probably qualifies as "medicinal purposes." |
| b0:cce:ba11 | You know, I only discovered Bocce Ball in my 30s. |
| 5ca1:ab1e | Ignore what you see elsewhere, the secret to scalability is in using clever IP addresses. |
| ca:b0b | yummy |
| fa1:afe1 | even more yummy! |
| b1ab:bed | We might need to tighten up our HTML a bit. |
| bab:b1e | We might need to recompress our images a bit. |
| ba:b00 | My sweet baboo! |
| 10ad:ed | I bet it has an itchy trigger finger, too. |
| ba:11ad | The entire site is set in iambic pentameter. |
| a:100f | My site doesn't like me. |
| acc0:1ade | Network admins rarely, if ever, hear praise of their work. |
| aff:ab1e | An address for a social networking site if ever I heard one. |
| ba:ff1e | Don't blame me for the contents of this site. The web team reports to a whole different department from the network admins. |
| ba1:b0a | Its the Eye of the Tiger, baby! |
| ed1:f1ce | Look upon my network, ye Mighty, and despair. |
| 5caf:f01d | This load balancing tier was intended to be temporary. That was four years ago. Such is the way of things. |
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Finally, here are some 16 bit numbers which are more interesting than "dead," "f00d" and "beef" | |
| caca | A statement about the website quality, I suppose. |
| deaf | This is a transmit-only network. |
| ba1d | If tires can go bald, why not networks? |
| a1fa | I couldn't find a reasonable approximation of beta. |
| f01d | Origami networking! |
| fa11 | If a site falls in the forest, does it make a sound? |
| c01d | Networking is a dish best served cold. |
| ab1e | Or ! 0xab1e, as the case may be. |
| b0de | Beware the Ides of March. |
| cede | I give up, I'm done. |
This post was inspired by several tweets by Dan Morrill. BTW, this post is 100% recycled content.