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Re: Strange getservbyname behaviour
From: |
Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: Strange getservbyname behaviour |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Nov 2002 16:45:33 +0100 |
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"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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