On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Dr. Richard W. Tibbs wrote:

> 
> I have sporadically had the same problem, probably due to network 
> misconfig on my end.
> What I am still curious about --- maybe someone can explain this --- is 
> why a unix socket system call, sendto(), is being invoked by ping --- 
> which assumedly would be using inet calls like listen() and accept().
> Sendto() should only be used for IPC on the same machine, right?

No.  I haven't done much network programming, but I am pretty sure
sendto should be used whenever you want to send a connectionless message.

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