RE: what's the meaning of the 0.0.0.0?

[stephen at unix dot za dot net <stephen () unix za net>]

as far as my networking knowledge goes.....

0.0.0.0/0 is the same 0/0 is the same as "all" or "any" in firewall
rules...

broadcast address is normally a.b.c.255  (which is why u cant have a node
with that IP)

On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Fernando Gont wrote:

> 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
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