Newsgroups : Borland : borland.public.delphi.internet.winsock : 2007 Jan : Re: UDP ... How to get through routers over the internet?
| Subject: | Re: UDP ... How to get through routers over the internet? |
| Posted by: | "Dirk Claessens" (now..@invalid) |
| Date: | Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:56:37 |
On 2007-01-23, Jim (65.116.140.131) wrote in
message <45b683d9$1@newsgroups.borland.com>
> This works fine over a local network, but isn't working at all over the
> internet.
Obviously...
Broadcasting was designed to work *only* on the local LAN.
Broadcasting means "everyone"; imagine what would happen when this
would work over the internet...
--
Dirk.
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