How to find out the administrator?

There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.

Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the administrator.

ps: 1 all the machines run the same services
2 there is not any profile to tell you which is the administrator one.

Any solutions?

thanks advanced

On 2007-09-03, Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.
> Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the administrator.

Floor one of them with a ping flood, if someone shows up at your
desk with a baseball bat, he is the administrator.

Davide

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Davide Bianchi wrote:
> On 2007-09-03, Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.
>> Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the administrator.
>
> Floor one of them with a ping flood, if someone shows up at your
> desk with a baseball bat, he is the administrator.
>
> Davide
>
I am sorry, but i don't know what you mean.
could you please give some examples?

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:17:30 +0800, Scofield wrote:

> There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.
>
> Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the
> administrator.
>
> ps: 1 all the machines run the same services
> 2 there is not any profile to tell you which is the administrator
> one.

That looks a heck of a lot like a homework question.

> Any solutions?

How about you do your homework on your own and learn something from doing
so? Having the answer handed to you here is not doing you any favors. If
you cannot figure this out given the information you have learned in
class or in the materials handed to you for study then you are in the
wrong field of study. Perhaps you should go into art or music or drop out
and work as a clerk in a retail store ... the options are virtually
endless.

> thanks advanced

You're welcome.

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Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Davide Bianchi wrote:
>> On 2007-09-03, Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.
>>> Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the administrator.
>>
>> Floor one of them with a ping flood, if someone shows up at your
>> desk with a baseball bat, he is the administrator.
>>
> I am sorry, but i don't know what you mean.
> could you please give some examples?

The response was gently suggesting you do your own homework.

Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> schrieb:

>Davide Bianchi wrote:
>> On 2007-09-03, Scofield <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>> There are several machines, and they connect with each other via TCP/IP.
>>> Please design an algorithm to find out which machine is the administrator.
>>
>> Floor one of them with a ping flood, if someone shows up at your
>> desk with a baseball bat, he is the administrator.
>>
>> Davide
>>
>I am sorry, but i don't know what you mean.
>could you please give some examples?

He pointed out that the administrator is a human being, not one of the
servers. The admin is supposed to feel responsible about the
installation. Go and ask him.
Eggert