Today is World IPv6 day – a day for websites around the world to test their IPv6 readiness. One unexpected consequence is that IPv6 address are hex – and therefore contain the letters a-f. This hasn’t been lost on the network boffins at the big sites that are taking part in todays experiment.
- Facebook – 2620:0:1c08:4000:face:b00c::
- BBC – 2001:4b10:bbc::1
- Cisco – 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d
- US Dept of Commerce– 2610:20:0:20:5ec:d0c:d0c:d0c
- 2020Media has gone for the simple: [2a00:19e8:20:20::20]
SysAdmins everywhere will enjoy inserting their favourite beverage into addresses: :c0:ffee
For more tips on spelling in IPv6, see Pingdom
And Finally…
Lancaster University Network Services have gone for the schoolboy favourite: [2a01:8900:0:1::b00b:1e5]