Rubrik Interview Coding Question: Find All Nodes That Have an IP Address or Can Reach One in a Directed Graph

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Given a starting node in a directed graph of immutable nodes, find a set of nodes that either:

  • have an IP address, or
  • can reach a node having an IP address.

Node in the graph is represented as:

Node {label -> String // unique in the graph
  connections -> List[Node]
  hasIpAddress -> Boolean
}

(t) -> Node has IP address

(f) -> Node doesn’t have an IP address

This problem asks you to collect all nodes in a directed graph that either already have an IP address or can reach one through outgoing edges. A typical solution uses DFS with memoization/visited tracking to avoid revisiting nodes and to handle cycles safely. The main challenge is propagating the result backward so that any node with a path to an IP-address node is included in the final set.

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