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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
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> 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.
No trees were killed in the creation of this message;
however, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.
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