Why don't you give an example in your blog post on how you would use "nc" to transfer a file between two machines without knowing their addresses, then? (And..

Why don't you give an example in your blog post on how you would use "nc" to transfer a file between two machines without knowing their addresses, then? (And.. are you sure TCP works on broadcast? Because on my OS X machine it doesn't seem to take: % sudo nc -v 255.255.255.255 9696 nc: connect to 255.255.255.255 port 9696 (tcp) failed: Permission denied )