Re: broadcast to internet?

From: Lee (icmp30_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 10/17/04

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    Date: 17 Oct 2004 01:12:26 -0700

    NeoSadist <neosad1st@charter.net> wrote in message news:<10ml3b04a42ridd@corp.supernews.com>...
    > Madhur Ahuja wrote:
    >
    > > Hello
    > >
    > > Whenever a transmission occurs to IP addresss 255.255.255.255:137
    > > with the source IP of the interface connected to the Internet, Is
    > > the broadcast received by all the machines on the Internet. If not,
    > > why?
    >
    > Probably not. Depends.

    Definitely not. Anything addressed to 255.255.255.255 is a local broadcast.
    See RFC 1812 section 4.2.2.11

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