Re: Strange getservbyname behaviour

[Andreas Schwab]

"Tuninetto, Paolo" <address@hidden> 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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