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Like other things in tech, you can do this, but you really shouldn't. There are a lot of assumptions baked into those addresses per the RFCs, which are kind of
by candiddevmike 3y ago
Like other things in tech, you can do this, but you really shouldn't. There are a lot of assumptions baked into those addresses per the RFCs, which are kind of like our industry's electrical code. Using a broadcast address is "not up to code".
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoLong, long ago, SunOS, and possibly other Unixes, considered x.x.x.0 as a broadcast address as well. (Or I should say more properly, an all-zeroes host address.) It took a long, long time to shake that assumption out of all code, long after the OS had stopped using .0 that way. So this is yet another domino.
- Faaak 3y agoPlease tell, then. But no, I don't see what is wrong with that. An outsider doesn't know the CIDR of the IP he's talking too, so it wouldn't change. It only matters for the last router in the loop, and if it's taken into account (because it's actually your infra), then it's okay