simple server?

1998-08-20 Thread Alan Su
i'm pretty confused about some weird behavior i'm seeing with the socket routines on a couple hamm machines. i've written a simple dumb server to demonstrate the behavior, and i'll attach it below. basically, it opens a socket and tries to bind it to a specific port. the wierd thing is that bind

Re: simple server?

1998-08-20 Thread Alexander Yukhimets
serverSockName.sin_port = port; And you telling me that you actually write networking software? :) Every book would tell you that you should do serverSockName.sin_port = htons(port); (Yes, on Solaris it would work even without htons() since hton?() functions do nothing, host order coinside