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A comment on Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question. Parent comment

Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question by stickfigure on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @01:23PM (#41437089)
The stepwise increasing TTL is the fundamental mechanism that makes traceroute work. Any answer that omits this is so vacuously incomplete that it might as well be considered wrong.
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Re:Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question by treatmesubj on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:19PM (#41437562)
fair enough, I guess the TTL exceeded response is how you learn about each hop
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