Scanning machines on a network

[Dar Scott]

On Tuesday, March 12, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Dar Scott wrote:

> Here are four of the ways I can send to myself:
>
> Destination IP Address                  IP Address given to handler
> ----------------------                  ---------------------------
> 127.0.0.1                               127.0.0.1
> 255.255.255.255                         <my ip>
> 0.0.0.0                                 <my ip>
> <my ip>                                 <my ip>
>
> Where <my ip> means the IP address of this computer.  (127.0.0.2 
> does not work.)
>
> The third method could be used to get the local IP address.

It turns out this is a crumby idea.  On Windows 2000, 0.0.0.0 does 
not seem to work as a destination address.

(Aside:  127.2.2.1 does work on Windows 2000, but does not on OS X.)

Dar Scott