Re: 239.255.255.250

[Joe <joe () BLARG NET>]

On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jose Nazario wrote:

> > available via the gateway). Even if you're ISPs routers let it
> > through, there are no routes on the backbones that can take it
> > anywhere, so the "public internet" is never going to see those
> > packets.
>
> that's odd, given i've watched mutlicast stuff from well afar of my local
> network, or my ISP's network.
>
> multicast is indeed routable. its not a reserved block (like 10/8,
> 192.168/16, or 172.16/12, RFC1918 address). please see the references
> listed below for more information.

Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally. I need more coffee before
reading mail. Ugh.

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