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Old 12-10-2008
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Stay away from directed broadcasts, they are dangerous. Use 255.255.255.255 instead.

Note originally 255.255.255.255 was intended to be used to broadcast to every node on the Internet. It was quickly found to be a bad idea and was changed to mean "limited broadcast" to be sent on the local link only. See RFC 1122.