From Lyrics – My Songs (songs.q-ist.com).
Quoth Aaron* on the NANOG list:
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’s 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 “Two Lit-tle Bytes” – by Amy Fass
after “Three Little Maids from School” by Gilbert & Sullivan
chorus:
Four little bytes of address code
Couldn’t spare any more bandwidth load
To indicate the network node
Four little bytes of codeFour little bytes, all allocated
IPv6 is anticipated
Sixteen years we’ve 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’ve lost it
v4 is dead, man, it’s time we tossed it[1]
Four little bytes of codeFour little by———tes of code!
Save on your subnets—four bytes!
END
*I cannot find his Twitter handle.
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