"Danny Mayer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> No it is not a flaw in the protocol design. It would be if it were put
> in. The address doesn't belong there, it belongs in the IP header which
> the receiving server always gets.
It is a flaw. Its absence requires the receiver to assume that the
origin address of the UDP packet received is the IP address of the sending
server. This assumption may or may not be correct. But if the address were
in there, the assumption would not be needed.
DS
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