current-users: Re: name service (does anyone else see this?)

Subject: Re: name service (does anyone else see this?)
To: Greg A. Woods <woods@kuma.web.net>
From: Eduardo E. Horvath eeh@btr.com <eeh@btr.btr.com>
List: current-users
Date: 08/07/1995 08:50:16

On Sun, 6 Aug 1995, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On Sun, August  6, 1995 at 17:36:14 (-0400), John Hawkinson wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: name service (does anyone else see this?)
> >
> > Yup, and on my NetBSD/i386 boxes, and even on my SunOS boxes. But that's
> > telnet. Other programs:
> > 
> > [lola-granola!jhawk] ~>  ping 0
> > PING 0 (0.0.0.0): 56 data bytes
> > 64 bytes from 18.70.0.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=1.466 ms

I seem to recall that 0.0.0.0 was sometimes used as the network broadcast 
address that while it may now be deprecated and superceded by 
255.255.255.255, you never know if there's some ancient network somewhere 
out there that's still using it.  

Eduardo