Re[2]: [Exim] bounce from [0.0.0.0]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:35:14 -0400 "Tabor J. Wells" <twells@???> wrote:

> 0.0.0.0 is equivalent to localhost on most (all?) systems.

ummmmm.

not quite. 0.0.0.0/32 is the ancestral broadcast address, the use of which
is deprecated. many older stacks still respond to it, though.

richard
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