Thursday, February 1, 2018

A merry tune, the story of IPv4

Off topic, but I wrote this poem after a rant with a co-worker and thought some people here might like it.

so once upon a time there was really smart guy,

he said "We'll run out of v4!", it wasn't a lie.

decades snuck past, like a bear in a den,

no thinking ahead, companies prefer CGN!

new hardware deployed supports Carrier-Grade-Nat,

what a joke; could you please take it back?

disaster ensues, ip blocks being shuffled,

the screams of v4 routing tables silently muffled.

hilarity ensues, wikipedia bans a nation -

appologies were given, possibly carnations.

how you might ask? a group of users you see,

the entire country of Qatar sharing a single IP.



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