The following reply was made to PR bin/35479; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: bin/35479: /usr/sbin/timedc fails
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:13:13 +0100

 djv@bedford.net wrote:
 > --- cmds.c.orig	2007-01-24 22:33:51.000000000 -0500
 > +++ cmds.c	2007-01-24 22:34:30.000000000 -0500
 > @@ -483,10 +483,11 @@
 >  		return(-1);
 >  	}
 >  
 > +	memset(&sin, 0, sizeof sin);
 >  	sin.sin_family = AF_INET;
 >  	sin.sin_addr.s_addr = 0;
 >  	for (port = IPPORT_RESERVED - 1; port > IPPORT_RESERVED / 2; port--) {
 > -		sin.sin_port = htons((u_short)port);
 > +		sin.sin_port = port;
 >  		if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&sin, sizeof (sin)) >= 0)
 >  			break;
 
 Sorry, but I don't get this. In how far is htons() a bug here? It certainly
 never mattered for a big-endian machine but on a little endian machine it
 definitely does. Albeit I'm having trouble to find this in the documentation,
 sin_port has to be initialized using big-endian (network byte order). For
 raw sockets this might differ but this is an UDP socket.
 
 > Eliminating the htons call on little-endian machines results in a port
 > assignment in the 0-1023 range as demanded by some hosts, and as appears to
 > be the intent of the programmer.
 
 I don't see how unless I'm missing something.
 
 -- 
 Christian