René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"dgram: follow the same standard of net for the default address","articleBody":"In dgram, if you omit the `address` in send (https://nodejs.org/api/dgram.html#dgram_socket_send_msg_offset_length_port_address_callback), message is sent to `'0.0.0.0'` or `'::0'` whereas in net the default address for `net.connect` is `'localhost'` (https://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_net_connect_options_connectlistener).\n\nThis behavior has been around since forever, making `dgram.send` default address not reliable (see https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/5407#issuecomment-189762930).\n\nI propose to reconcile this two behavior, having `dgram` default to `'localhost'` as well.\n\nThis will be a semver-major change.\n\ncc @silverwind @rvagg @mafintosh @feross\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/mcollina","@type":"Person","name":"mcollina"},"datePublished":"2016-02-29T11:04:30.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":8},"url":"https://github.com/5487/node/issues/5487"}