On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 17:13:15 -0800
Michael Forney wrote:
> On 2018-11-12, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> > I am surprised you are getting away with binding the socket to the
> > broadcast address.
>
> I found in ip(7):
>
> INADDR_BROADCAST (255.255.255.255) means any host and has the same
> effect on bind as INADDR_ANY for historical reasons.
>
> So that explains why it worked.
Interesting. I obviously hit a case where it doesn't, but that could
be a bug on my side.
> BTW, is there going to be a part 3/3?
>
Part 3/3 relies heavily on part 1/3 being accepted ;)
Cheers,
Sean
