An international IT corporation is setting up an R&D center in China, and the chair faculty is hiring network researchers. They decided they wanted to try a fun interview puzzle classic:455Please respect copyright.PENANALzPLaoWyHW
"Describe what will happen after you type in google.com and enter in your browser with as much detail as possible."455Please respect copyright.PENANATas9EDXv3v
Half an hour has passed, and the applicant is still lecturing enthusiastically about the protocol specifications of Shadowsocks, Trojan, and VMess, the encryption, emulation, and obfuscation standards for the network traffic, the automated packet analysis set up by the ISP and the communist party, and it seemed the step where the browser receives a DNS name record is still an hour away.455Please respect copyright.PENANAgQlLDKdrsM
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Several hours of intensive lecturing later, the applicant says:455Please respect copyright.PENANA9CRoUQSeM8
"And finally, you receive an RST flag, and then the agents with the Bureau for the Protection of National Political Security knock on your door."455Please respect copyright.PENANANNNLcqHS5v
And the applicant sat down and paused.455Please respect copyright.PENANAumwktGqI6B
Knock, knock.455Please respect copyright.PENANAaNNb8AkV50
The chair faculty was confused as they've already sent everybody in the office home just to listen to this applicant's wonderful lecture until the end.455Please respect copyright.PENANAJq5LILxn24