Bucktown Tiger's video: You Down With BGP

BGP - a song all about the worldwide Internet routing protocol we all have come to know and love and tolerate :) a parody of "O.P.P." by Naughty by Nature - all images the property of their respective creators enjoy! :) also - and stop Internet censorship - stop SOPA - stop PIPA - stop ACTA OMG 50,000 views! Thank you all for listening; I hope you enjoyed it! ----- BGP, how can I explain it? I take it frame-by-frame it  (wait, that's Layer 2... sorry) GP, Gateway Protocol, actin' sleazy but the B? well, that's not that easy, huh It's like that thing you cannot cross without a passport and Taco Bell will make you wanna run for it, yeah Before you think I'm making jokes, I'm not referring to a toilet I guess I gotta say it and spoil it - run it You ever fail to send a message on the Internet? You hit a site, you wonder why it hasn't loaded yet? You 404, you think your Firefox has flown the coop? You do a trace and then you notice there's a routing loop? It's not a Cisco E to the I to the G to the R to the P It's just your route reflector died (with no redundancy!) It's BGP, the World Wide Web is all about it There's no room for adjacencies, there's just room to ROUTE IT! How many people got a phone without a data plan? How many people live their life like all the Amish can? Well if you do then you don't need the Internet at all But otherwise, here's your protocol You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (Every ISP!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (All ISP's!) As for the techies, BGP is so terrific The letters are all the same, but in depth, it's something different It's the standard, worldwide, the universal method TCP 179, that's the port you can expect it No need to spit minutiae like information hoarders Let's say the B in BGP stands for Border Now here's a keepalive - send the keepalive back to me Now we're established Have you ever been troubleshooting and your neighbor's not receiving routes? Your export policy sends your entire table out They need capacity so they just up and add a node You never turned on multihop because you didn't know A massive outage for your customers would then ensue The neighbor ISP then tried to blame it all on you Your boss was livid and he banned you from the telco POP But not before you proved exactly why the routing dropped You changed the settings and you fixed it when you bounced the port Say "BGP!" (BGP!) I say it with a snort Now in the future make sure your config is never whack You're now down with your job back You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (Every CCIE!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (All the techies!) They're tryin' to take us off BGP Right now in Congress they're debating legislation that would change the whole Internet And now the people disagreein', yeah, we arguin' We're sending vitriolic letters from our apartment - run it! See, that's the thing, it must have been the way they strike at freedom Or how they're voting on these bills before they even read 'em Their politicking's all influenced by the highest bid So they can lock us up for more than Dr. Murray get He gave MJ the propofol that killed the King of Pop They found him guilty, he got four years serving in the drop You do a tribute cover wishing he was still alive The record labels call the cops, they sentence you to five! The corporations' private money's what they're all about The business models they protect, we need to throw them out Once on the road to censorship, there is no turning back So BoingBoing, Wikipedia, and Reddit black Amazing, isn't it? Yeah, we can put an end to this We already got some of them changing up their positions So keep fighting, 'cause we're not done yet So we can surf BGP all over the 'Net You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (21st century!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) You down with BGP? (Yeah you know me!) Who's down with BGP? (All society!)