Wow, what a great idea...don't know why I never thought to try it in an interview?
Considering its something I've had to do now and then in my job. Incidents will come in saying, why does http monitor say our website is down...port XXX is listening....and occasionally they'll add that they can telnet to it. So, have to go further and with "GET /", enter, enter ... 1...2...3...4...5.... It answered, but it closed the connection and sent nothing. Or, it took 3 minutes to finally respond (the monitor is set to 16 seconds). Or it didn't respond with the expected response. There was one case where it was http monitor to a status port, look for "STATUS: OK"...and it turned out they had typed "STATUS: OK" (two spaces) after a maintenance.... Then comes how do you troubleshoot the same problem with an https port? ----- Original Message ----- > Tom Limoncelli posted a fascinating blog post today, at > http://everythingsysadmin.com/2013/05/what-happens-when-you-type-tel.html > It reminds me in some ways of > https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/posts/dfydM2Cnepe > (same question, a stupendously in-depth exploration of everything > that goes into something commonplace). > That in turn, leads to a fun topic that hasn't been asked lately in > the circles I travel: What's your favorite sysadmin interview > question? > -- Corey > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System > Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ -- Who: Lawrence K. Chen, P.Eng. - W0LKC - Senior Unix Systems Administrator For: Enterprise Server Technologies (EST) -- & SafeZone Ally Snail: Computing and Telecommunications Services (CTS) Kansas State University, 109 East Stadium, Manhattan, KS 66506-3102 Phone: (785) 532-4916 - Fax: (785) 532-3515 - Email: lkc...@ksu.edu Web: http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~lkchen - Where: 11 Hale Library
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