[154684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: job screening question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Sun Jul 8 00:10:35 2012
In-Reply-To: <6287cebd84702948aa393809d67e39e0@mail.dessus.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2012 23:09:54 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/7/12, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
>>"What's the problem with using 255.255.255.247 as a subnet mask if you
>>want to make a LAN subnet with 12 hosts?"
>> (5 word answer)
> Unemployment Office Is That Way ->
> Is the only 5 word answer I could come up with. The correct answer "invalid
> netmask", is only two words.
5 words = "The netmask is not valid."
Also acceptable response; "A netmask must be contiguous."
> Short Answer: There is no answer to the question that can be expressed in
> one number.
Acceptable answers: "None", or "25"
Unacceptable answers: any number other than 25, or anything other
than a one-word answer.
(After your rep has told them that you expect a one-word answer, of course.)
--
-JH
