Tailscale's DNS IPv6 spells out "Tailscale"

Related: the name for your Tailnet is randomly-generated from a list of 'tails', and a list of 'scales' in the format `<a tail>-<a scale>.ts.net`.

Many puns and easter-eggs in both! Recommend giving it a quick glance, some are pretty fun. Some examples include 'fable' as a 'tail' (IE 'tale'), and 'universe' as a 'scale'.

Words can be present in both lists when the entity is applicable to both a tail and a scale, so a tailnet named `koi-koi.ts.net` is theoretically possible too.

Found out about it after I randomly lucked into rolling 'miku' as my 'tail' when first creating my account :)

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/words

Facebook does this too:

  $ dig +short AAAA facebook.com
  2a03:2880:f10e:83:face:b00c:0:25de

This makes me think about something. Why don't we support this as a standard?

It would be nice if local ipv6 spelled out "local"

imagine this: local::homelab in your url-bar just working

edit: Yes I know DNS solves this problem, but it would be very neat non the less, making 128bits of packet overhead actually serve a purpose without any software glue.

Is there a technical reason it starts at index 2 instead of 0?

Sound it out with your mouth: "What DNS do you use?"

"One hundred one hundred one hundred one hundred"

or

"one hundred, 4 times"

vs.

"f d seven a colon one one five c colon a one e zero colon colon five three"

This is just a rant but IPv6 will never be widely adopted.

"Nobody needs human-memorable IP addresses"

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