Hello Gavin,

RE FTP IP addressing bug?

Your enthusiasm raised my curiosity...  I took a look at the "name to ip" and "ip to name" resolution routines and found we are extracting the the ip parts with 'ultoa'.

  strcpy(qbuf, ultoa((unsigned)addr[3] & 0xff));

It appears to me that the '0xff' definition of this ultoa is stripping the leading bits off of any number greater than $ff = 255.  I will have to look into this further to determine it's functionality,  but I was surprised that the MPE resolver is working differently than HP-UX 11.0 as the resolver code is a direct port from HP-UX with few changes, mostly MPE'ism's (opening files RESLFCNF.NET.SYS, HOSTS.NET.SYS & NSSWITCH.NET.SYS as examples).

Regards,

James Hofmeister
Email: <first>.<last>@hp.com
Hewlett Packard - Global Solutions Engineering (WTEC)
P.S. My Ideals are my own, not necessarily my employers.

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