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Date:      Mon, 30 Apr 2007 09:53:57 +0000
From:      "Abraham K. Mathen" <akmathen@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Why can't I sendto() to 127.255.255.255
Message-ID:  <BAY121-F3CDBE21F302919E2F07BDDE4C0@phx.gbl>

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Hello freebsd-hackers,
  I wrote a short program (on FreeBSD 6.0), that attempts
to call sendto() on a UDP socket, with 127.255.255.255 as
the destination address. It failed - with errno 49 (EADDRNOTAVAIL).
Setting SO_BROADCAST and IP_ONESBCAST did not help.

  After examining
- various RFC's,
- source code under /usr/src/sys/netinet/ and
- archives of freebsd-hackers & freebsd-net,
I have not been able to determine the reason.

  Is it possible to successfully sendto() on a UDP socket
with 127.255.255.255 as the destination address? If yes,
how can that be done.

Specific questions :
----------------------------------------------------------
- Is it correct to understand that 127.255.255.255 is the
  directed network broadcast address for net 127? If yes,
  which RFC specifies that?

- If not, is 127.255.255.255 considered to be a host
  address? If yes, which RFC specifies that?
----------------------------------------------------------

  Could you please help me understand this?


sincerely

Mathen
(Abraham K. Mathen)

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