On May 7, 2013, at 8:04 AM, Dean Wilson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2013 at 10:52:51AM -0400, Matt Simmons wrote: >> I'd rather ask (and answer) open ended questions. Everyone always asks >> "What is the TCP three way handshake", but my favourite question is, "Why is >> it important to understand the three way handshake?" > > I've always used something like - > > "What happens when you type 'telnet example.com http" Huh. I've been doing this for a decade and somehow never tumbled on to telnet performing /etc/service lookups. Makes perfect sense in retrospect, this is just one of those things I somehow missed. Thanks-- and I'm glad I wasn't interviewing with you at the time! Though to be fair, explicit port declaration works just fine and dandy! -- Corey _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
