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
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