Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c'

Posted by nathanyz on Friday September 10, 2021 @01:23PM
from the cdn.zappy.app dept.

https://cdn.zappy.app/b8f7a14ea480868c2a7fdf35cdb9b8e5.png

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by zamadatix on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:44PM (#28486119)

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.

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by twodai on Friday September 10, 2021 @07:50PM (#28488145)

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.

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by nathanyz on Friday September 10, 2021 @05:02PM (#28486854)

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

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by bravetraveler on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:03AM (#28492519)

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

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by p1mrx on Saturday September 11, 2021 @11:12AM (#28492600)

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

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Re:Facebook has vanity IPv6 ':face:b00c' by piperswe on Friday September 10, 2021 @03:15PM (#28485863)

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

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