[Pdns-users] PDNS && Solaris && Recursor setting not working

[Remco Post]

On Feb 24, 2004, at 22:40, Roderick Groesbeek wrote:
>
> Are there any more of these kind of BIG ENDIAN'ness in the source code?

in the recursor-code there must be more of this....

> I see the dnsheader has a part for BIG ENDIAN and a part for LITTLE 
> ENDIAN,
> but the 'id' has been left out.
>
> ~~
>   //! the raw DNS header
>   struct dnsheader
>   {
>     unsigned int id:16;  //!< id of this query/response
> #ifdef WORDS_BIGENDIAN     // ultrasparc
>     unsigned int qr:1;      //!< 1 if this is a query, 0 if response
> ~~
>
> Aren't then any other locations where the ID has to be converted to 
> some
> form of little endianness??
>

I can't think of any other time pdns would want to generate an id and 
later compare it to something. In all other cases pdns would just wat 
to preserve it...

> Anyway.. time for dinner now. I cannot think about bit-fiddling with an
> empty stomage.. :-)
>
>
> Vriendelijke Groet,
>
> Roderick
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