[AusNOG] World IPv6 Day

[Byron Ellacott]

Indeed.  Why not just remember one short, simple line of perl instead of a complex v6 address:

perl -ne 'my $line=$_;print join(":",(split(/:/,$line))[0..3]),":\"",join("",map({map({chr(hex(substr($_,0,2))).chr(hex(substr($_,2,2)))} sprintf("%04s",$_))} (split(/:/,$line))[4..7])),"\"\n";'

2001:dc0:a000:4:2020:6865:6c6c:6f21 => 2001:dc0:a000:4:"  hello!"

  Byron

On 09/06/2011, at 11:44 AM, <John.Gibbins at csiro.au> wrote:

> Couldn't we just have the libraries that display the address use ASCII instead of hex?  That way a 64 bit interface address could represent an arbitrary 8 char string.  
> 
> eg 2001:db9:4865:6c6c:6f20:576f:726c:6421=> 2001:db9:"Hello World!"
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Richard Bayliss
> Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:19 AM
> To: Narelle
> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] World IPv6 Day
> 
> Careful Narelle,
> 
> Otherwise soon there will be a proposal for IPv8 which includes support for all of the missing english and non-english characters.
> 
> Yikes!
> 
> Cheers
> Rich
> 
> 
> 
> On 09/06/2011, at 9:54 AM, Narelle wrote:
> 
>> That is really clever.
>> 
>> I admit I've been struggling with these Very Big Addresses for a
>> while, til Skeeve pointed out all I should do is make words! Mind you
>> we were talking about memorable things like abba.
>> 
>> It's kinda hard when you've got whole IPv4 addressing plans burnt into
>> your brain...
>> 
>> I'm going to have to keep a note somewhere of favourite ping6 and
>> traceroute6 destinations for those routine connectivity tests, but
>> really, we might even be able to remember 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2
>> or 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d !!
>> 
>> Just gorgeous. Truly, What's not to love!!?
>> 
>> Narelle
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at cisco.com> wrote:
>>> we had a bit of fun too.
>>> 
>>> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$ dig +short aaaa www.cisco.com
>>> 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d
>>> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$
>>> 
>>> 
>>> cheers,
>>> 
>>> lincoln.
>>> On 08/06/2011, at 12:40 PM, Michael Bowe wrote:
>>> 
>>>> LOL at the facebook IP
>>>> 
>>>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
>>>> 
>>>> dig +short www.facebook.com aaaa
>>>> 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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>> 
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