Facebook's IPv6 Addresses - LOL

Wed Jun 8 01:05:43 UTC 2011

This is amusing:

Tracing route to www.facebook.com [2620:0:1c00:0:*face:b00c*:0:2]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  2001:1938:2a7::1
  2    88 ms    95 ms    88 ms  gw-383.phx-01.us.sixxs.net[2001:1938:81:17e::1]
  3    91 ms    86 ms    89 ms  2001:4de0:1000:a4::1
  4    87 ms   128 ms    92 ms  1-3.ipv6.r1.ph.hwng.net[2001:4de0:1000:27::2]
  5    87 ms    94 ms    85 ms  2001:478:186::20
  6   100 ms    98 ms   100 ms
10gigabitethernet2-2.core1.lax1.he.net[2001:470:0:159::1]
  7   117 ms   107 ms   116 ms
10gigabitethernet7-3.core1.fmt2.he.net[2001:470:0:18d::1]
  8   112 ms   109 ms   114 ms
10gigabitethernet1-1.core1.sjc2.he.net[2001:470:0:31::2]
  9   106 ms   108 ms   108 ms
facebook.gige-g5-9.core1.sjc2.he.net[2001:470:0:14a::2]
 10   105 ms   106 ms   107 ms  ae0.bb01.sjc1.tfbnw.net [2620:0:1cff:*
dead:beef*::9]
 11   134 ms   132 ms   140 ms
ae10.bb01.prn1.tfbnw.net[2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::119]
 12   134 ms   133 ms   134 ms
ae0.dr01.prn1.tfbnw.net[2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::19d]
 13   132 ms   133 ms   133 ms
po1023.csw01a.prn1.tfbnw.net[2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::381]
...

In case the formatting get's lost, their initial address includes
"face:booc" and one of the hops along the way is "dead:beef".  :-)

David :-D