Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c'

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22 pointsnathanyz6 comments

Suffix vanity is fun but not really special. You too could put :face:b00c at the end of your IPv6 IP on any IPv6 subnet.

For some real vanity stuff Sprint (well now T-Mobile) has 2600::/28 and 2600:: actually points to their homepage. 2600 being a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600_hertz

Apart from being cool the latter also makes an extremely easy IPv6 ping test.

These little easter eggs in the IPv6 space are super interesting. Any others you happen to know of?

It's not very clever but any IPv6 range I get... I immediately configure ::dead:beef:cafe

WikipED1A uses 2620:0:861:ed1a::1, but that's just from their /48.

For a second I thought it was a reference to the hacker magazine and not the phone dial... then I realized it's the same reference. Facepalm.

It looks like they're just using the ::face:b00c suffix on a /64 they own

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