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Re: Strange getservbyname behaviour
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: "Tuninetto, Paolo" <Paolo dot Tuninetto at hp dot com>
- Cc: <bug-glibc at gnu dot org>, <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:45:33 +0100
- Subject: Re: Strange getservbyname behaviour
- References: <50DFF49E8F8D2344B51FAE9C168540201EB5C1@mlnexc01.emea.cpqcorp.net>
"Tuninetto, Paolo" <Paolo.Tuninetto@hp.com> writes:
|> Hi, I was trying to compile the ftpd from GNU inteutils and I found that when I try to run ftpd -D (daemon mode) it opens a connection on the 5376 port instead of the default 21.
|>
|> Looking at the rource and it seems that there is a problem with the getservbyname function call that ftpd is using.
|>
|> This is a simple test program. Afaik it should reply with PORT: 21 but the reply I get is PORT: 5376 (5376 = 21*256)
Looks like you are running it on a Wrong Endian(tm) host. The port is
given in network byte order, use ntohs to convert.
Andreas.
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