[154565] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Thu Jul 5 21:46:02 2012
In-Reply-To: <4FF5CC01.6010504@davidcoulson.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:45:26 -0700
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 10:16 AM, David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>wrote:
> What if they said "it would cause the generation of port-unreachable ICMP
> packets to cease, and applications may hang until they timeout"? Not the
> answer you're looking for, but not wrong either.
>
Umm, yeah, it is wrong. The question was TCP. TCP doesn't send ICMP
Port-Unreach, it sends RST packets.
Scott
