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Date:      Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:45:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Randall Stewart <rrs@lakerest.net>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r217592 - head/sys/netinet
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.1103311144160.6057@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <2BE17525-83AA-4255-B191-3429B5FF6F5E@lakerest.net>
References:  <201101191907.p0JJ7GMp086060@svn.freebsd.org> <201103291401.03565.jhb@freebsd.org> <2BE17525-83AA-4255-B191-3429B5FF6F5E@lakerest.net>

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On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Randall Stewart wrote:

> John:
>
> So I caught up with Dave Thaler here at the IETF...
>
> He said that NO UDP socket that has NOT joined a multicast
> group should ever receive a packet sent to a multicast address.
> He also said this was part of the POSIX API and the way
> all Unix machines worked.
>
> So.. no it is a bug and the fix is correct.

Randall, thank you for following this up.  If we ever meet,
I owe you a beer (or drink of your choice) :-)

-- 
DE



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