Never been one to let the carrier drop

TCP Blues

Well I came in  this morning and I heard the news
It seems some hacker had something to prove
The system monitor showed all sites black
I guess the server is under attack
Well you all know the truth
I got the TCP blues

Send me a SYN I’ll send you an ACK
Gotta retransmit, slide that window back
ICMP don’t give me no ping
Listen to the fans on that router sing
You all know the truth
I got the TCP blues

Service packs I installed every one
Got a email from redmond and another from sun
buffer overflow, DDOS
Guess this system didn’t pass the test
Black hat you know the truth
I got the TCP blues

Seems our firewall had a major flaw
Open wireless behind it and you know it’s the law
Someone did some wardriving
The sins of youth
You all know the truth
I got the TCP blues

Packet loss, I can’t find the cause
Our ISP says our network has flaws
CCNE’s got manuals I haven’t got to yet
This whole damn network’s got to go to the vet
You all know the truth I got the TCP blues

Every single protocol every single port
Connection failure or connection abort
My default gateway’s somewhere, but it ain’t heard the news
You all know the truth I got the TCP blues

Our web site’s got no index, it’s giving 404
Our boss just heard the news and I know the score
If things don’t get better I’m gonna have to go
Get myself a ticket to mexico
You all know the truth
I got the TCP blues

Someone get me out of here, blue screen of death
On some systems it’s green, on some a dump got left
I got errors microsoft hasn’t got to yet
Someone tell me what registry key to set
You all know the truth
I got the TCP blues

The RAID array’s gone south, Iron Mountain lost the backup tapes
This is turning into one of those really bad scrapes
Someone somewhere said I should hit the 80 proof
There’s gotta be an anticdote
To the TCP blues

Well someone go into the server room and hit the EPO
We’ll sit there in the silence and just enjoy the show
It’s gotta happen sometime, I got nothing left to prove
It’s a proven cure
to the TCP blues

Shut the power off
Call carnival
Go on a cruise

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