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Facebook casts a hex with self-referential IPv6

Manages without the letter K, m'kay?

Poll IPv6 addresses aren't really supposed to spell out domain names, but Facebook has adopted an IPv6 addy that includes the characters "faceb00c."

A quick DNS lookup of facebook.com confirms this: the domain resolves to 2a03:2880:2130:cf05:face:b00c::1. Faceb00c. Get it?

At The Reg's London office, we can’t agree on what we should think about that. IPv6.BBC.co.uk also resolves to 2001:4b10:bbc::1 and 2001:4b10:bbc::2, so maybe this is a thing now? What do you reckon? ®

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