It seems quite strange to me that hackers have adopted "0xdeadbeef" as some sort of generic hex string to use in production. AFAIK, "0xDEADBEEF" originated as

It seems quite strange to me that hackers have adopted "0xdeadbeef" as some sort of generic hex string to use in production. AFAIK, "0xDEADBEEF" originated as a "magic number" in systems like IBM RS/6000 and Solaris, and it was a red-flag number! It meant something in your system was wrong and you'd better check it out! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Debug_value https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)#Deb... Surely there are more pleasant, vegan hex strings to use, if you want to indicate an ephemeral IPv6 address?