Hello Dan.

24 Apr 06 09:38, you wrote to Peter Knapper:

 DC> On 24 Apr 06  06:02:24, Peter Knapper got back to Dan Ceppa
 DC> -> Re: The 000 hoax all over again

 PK>> But that does NOT stop anyone attemting to reach IP 0.0.0.0
 PK>> (000-0-0-0-0).

 DC>> Which gets you what exactly?

 PK>> Thats hard to say exactly because the result would probably be
 PK>> platform dependant and TCP/IP stack specific, however I can
 PK>> envisage a situation of a broadcast to all hosts on the internet,
 PK>> which SHOULD probably be blocked by ones ISP. Whatever happened,
 PK>> it would probably result in continual attempts to connect to
 PK>> something, which may be at the cost of the caller.

 DC> Pinging 0.0.0.0 gets you nowhere.  There is no IP address with
 DC> those numbers, period.


Actually 0.0.0.0 is commonly used as a broadcast IP address. It is not
however used as a device IP address.


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Jeff

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