What does the word "dead beef" mean? I read it from a interview question. It has something to do with ipv6. I figured it could be a random hex number used for examples, like "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog".
Is my understanding correct? Or it has more significant meaning?
Answer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dead%3Abeef
"Dead beef" is a very popular sentence in programming, because it is built only from letters a-f, which are used in hexadecimal notation. Colons in the beginning and in the middle of the sentence make this sentence a (theoretically) valid IPv6 address.