RE: what's the meaning of the 0.0.0.0?

[Fernando Gont <fernando () gont com ar>]

At 15:42 24/07/2003 -0400, you wrote:

> In linux machines when you try to connect to 0.0.0.0 it goes to
> localhost ...

A bug, perhaps?


> And in my last email i said that its a broadcast because
> it is going to "all" ips in this "broadcast domain*"...

The 0.0.0.0 is *not* the broadcast address.

I think this could only be possible on old BSD systems, that used zero's 
instead of one's for broadcast addresses.


--
Fernando Gont
e-mail: fernando () gont com ar || fgont () acm org



---------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------