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Four Lit-tle Bytes (an IPv4 song)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Davies)
Wed Apr 18 23:23:24 2012
From: Aaron Davies <aaron.davies@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:22:27 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is a song I've been working on on and off over the last couple =
years; when I sang it recently at a filk convention, I was told I should =
post it here. I hope it=92s not too OT (or too technically inaccurate!).
Sheet music, MIDI, and ABC source are available at =
http://songs.q-ist.com/.
Four Lit-tle Bytes of Ad-dress Code
by Aaron Davies
ttto =93Two Lit-tle Bytes=94
by Amy Fass
after =93Three Little Maids from School=94
by Gilbert & Sullivan
chorus:
Four little bytes of address code
Couldn=92t spare any more bandwidth load
To indicate the network node
Four little bytes of code
Four little bytes, all allocated
IPv6 is anticipated
Sixteen years we=92ve already waited!
Four little bytes of code
(chorus)
Four little bytes, a space all used up
Fridges and toasters IPs have chewed up
When will the ISPs get clued-up?
Four little bytes of code
(chorus)
Four little bytes, a space exhausted
Plenty of room, once, but now we=92ve lost it
v4 is dead, man, it=92s time we tossed it[1]
Four little bytes of code
Four little by=97=97=97tes of code!
Save on your subnets=97four bytes!
END
[1] Thanks to Bob Kanefsky for the rhyme!
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Aaron Davies
aaron.davies@gmail.com=
