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From: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu
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Subject: Re: getsockname problem ??
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Date: 4 May 90 02:03:47 GMT
References: <7889@rouge.usl.edu> <1990May3.233332.5956@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: brnstnd@stealth.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
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A note of warning: In a struct servent (as read from /etc/services),
s_port is defined as an int. Don't pass it to ntohl()! All ports are
unsigned short values and should go through ntohs().

In article <1990May3.233332.5956@athena.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
> (or store a constant address into
> the sin_addr.s_addr field, although this type of thing is frowned upon,
> since you should use gethostbyname() and then assign the return value
> directly into the sin_addr.s_addr field),

Don't be so pedantic. All programs should accept both numeric addresses
and domain names.

---Dan