As someone who runs a .0 on a public /24 and who uses net.inet.ip.hostzerobroadcast to not waste IPs needlessly, I thought it was hilarious when someone emailed me to tell me that I shouldn't do it, and that it'll break all sorts of things.
Then how did he see my web site? How did he send me an email? I asked him these questions and he said there apparently are hidden breakages that I can't possibly know that'll magically come out when I'm least expecting them. Naw - we don't need evidence here! Evidence just confuses people.
I can't tell if you're trolling or if you really don't understand.
The person who was emailing me got my email address from my web site. Both the email server and the web server are hosted on a public Internet .0, so in spite of my years of evidence which shows I've never seen a problem, he emailed me (and his email was successfully delivered to this same .0 machine) to tell me this wouldn't work, and that I'd see all sorts of problems that he never enumerated.
In other words, he expected his handwaving and I-know-better attitude to carry more weight than my years of actually doing a thing and observing the results. Ironically, the only way for him to find out more about me and email me was to visit a .0 server on the Internet and send an email to a .0 server on the Internet.
I received said evidence, and the supposed evidence both had no content and partly disproved his claim by the act of sending it to me.
Then how did he see my web site? How did he send me an email? I asked him these questions and he said there apparently are hidden breakages that I can't possibly know that'll magically come out when I'm least expecting them. Naw - we don't need evidence here! Evidence just confuses people.