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From: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3011: Wrong order of bytes in IP address for Listen
and VirtualHost directives
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 17:29:24 +0000
Marc Slemko wrote:
> On 16 Sep 1998, Thomas Graf wrote:
>
> > Data General DG/UX for Intel
>
> What compiler are you using?
>
> >
> > uname -a: dgux dms1 R4.20MU01 generic AViiON Pentium
> > >Description:
> > Named virtual hosts (3 names, 1 IP address) did not work until I gave the
> > IP address in opposite order (least significant byte first).
> > In this case:
> > www.dms.at and dms1.essi.fr have the IP address 157.169.10.160. The
> > NameVirtualHost and <VirtualHost> did not show an error (httpd -S), but
> > virtual
> > hosts did not work.
> > When I added the following directive in httpd.conf:
> > Listen 157.169.10.160:80
> > I got the error message:
> > [Tue Sep 15 14:30:58 1998] [crit] (126)Can't assign requested address:
> > make_sock: could not bind to address 160.10.169.157 port 80
> > Virtual hosts work since I replaced the IP address with 160.10.169.157.
>
> This really looks like a bogosity in the OS.
>
> What does the inet_network man page say WRT the byte order returned?
>
All Internet addresses are returned in network order (bytes ordered
from left to right). All network numbers and local address parts are
returned as machine-format integer values.
> If you compile and run the following program:
>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> #include <sys/socket.h>
> #include <netinet/in.h>
> #include <arpa/inet.h>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main () {
> printf("inet_network(\"10.11.12.13\") = %ld\n",
> inet_network("10.11.12.13"));
> }
>
> what do you get?
>
The output of this program is:
inet_network("10.11.12.13") = 168496141
(which is the same as on my Linux 2.0.35 system).
Thomas.
