sending UDP to broadcast address

[hdm at metasploit.com (HD Moore)]

On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:37:57 -0500, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/7/12 HD Moore <hdm at metasploit.com>:
> > On Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:34:27 -0500, Robin Wood <dninja at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I've tried <broadcast> and still can't get anything. I've dug through
> > > the socket and udp libraries and can't work out what I'm doing wrong.
> > > If I put a unicast IP or a hostname as the sendto parameter the code
> > > works.

The socket library is updated -- to make a broadcast-send capable socket,  
pass 'Broadcast' => true in the creation parameters (with 'PeerHost', etc).

-HD