User broadcasts are not propagated through the network · Issue #10 · hashicorp/memberlist

[yyamano]

“The basic reason it is not done in memberlist is that broadcast and multicast are both very unreliable. Most network deployments do not even support it (EC2, Azure, DigitalOcean, Rackspace, etc). Since Serf is largely designed for those environments, it adds complexity without any real use.”