Lyrics

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 code

Four 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 code

Four little by———tes of code!

Save on your subnets—four bytes!

END

[1] Thanks to Bob Kanefsky for the rhyme!