DNS bug in nmap-4.00 on PPC and SPARC

["E. Seth Miller" <esmiller () umich edu>]

Greetings-
        I seem to have found a bug with nmap-4.00 when running on PowerPC 
and SPARC systems.  The new DNS resolution looks up the reverse of the 
correct IP, eg. nmap 141.213.30.72 gives you the domain name belonging to 
72.30.213.141.
        I've tested this on MacOS 10.4.4, MacOS 10.3.9, Solaris 2.8, and 
Gentoo Linux PPC (system details appear below) and found this result.  I 
also tested it on Gentoo Linux x86 (2.4 and 2.6 kernels), where it works 
fine.  I'm guessing it is a problem on all big-endian systems.  (If you 
really want, I can dig up NetBSD/mac68k machine to test on as well. 
Yeah, I didn't think so.)
        I don't have a patch for this, and, realistically, I doubt I can 
come up with one -- I can't code to save my life.  Hopefully this helps 
anyway, and hopefully this hasn't already been reported and I just missed 
it.  Let me know if I can do anything else to assist.

        -Seth Miller

Sample run (note that the correct DNS for this IP is beast.dmc.dc.umich.edu):
[dc-at-3dmac:~] root# /usr/local/bin/nmap -sS 141.213.30.72

Starting Nmap 4.00 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2006-01-31 18:57 EST
Interesting ports on dc501007.inktomisearch.com (141.213.30.72):
(The 1671 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT   STATE SERVICE
22/tcp open  ssh
MAC Address: 00:04:AC:CB:61:02 (IBM)

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.964 seconds
[dc-at-3dmac:~] root#

Machine details:

weird-al:willy willy$ gcc --version
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.0 (GCC) 4.0.0 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5026)
weird-al:willy willy$ uname -a
Darwin weird-al.local 8.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.3.0: Mon Oct  3 
20:04:04 PDT 2005; root:xnu-792.6.22.obj~2/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh 
powerpc
[12" PowerBook 1GHz running MacOS 10.4.4]

[dc-at-3dmac:~] root# gcc --version
powerpc-apple-darwin8-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 
5250)
[dc-at-3dmac:~] root# uname -a
Darwin dc-at-3dmac.dmc.dc.umich.edu 8.4.0 Darwin Kernel Version 8.4.0: Tue 
Jan  3 18:22:10 PST 2006; root:xnu-792.6.56.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power 
Macintosh powerpc
[PowerMac G4 (Quicksilver 2002 DP) running MacOS 10.4.4]

[TiFighter:~] esmiller% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671)
[TiFighter:~] esmiller% uname -a
Darwin dhcp4.public.dc.umich.edu 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed 
Mar 30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
[15" Titanium PowerBook 1GHz running MacOS 10.3.9]

[aerfs:~] esmiller% gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1671)
[aerfs:~] esmiller% uname -a
Darwin aerfs.dmc.dc.umich.edu 7.9.0 Darwin Kernel Version 7.9.0: Wed Mar 
30 20:11:17 PST 2005; root:xnu/xnu-517.12.7.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC  Power 
Macintosh powerpc
[PowerMac G4 (Gigabit Ethernet DP) running MacOS 10.3.9]

willy@ltg-pmac2 ~/nmap-4.00 $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.4.4 (Gentoo 3.4.4-r1, ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
willy@ltg-pmac2 ~/nmap-4.00 $ uname -a
Linux ltg-pmac2.dmc.dc.umich.edu 2.4.26-ppc #6 Mon Jun 7 08:59:48 EDT 2004 
ppc 740/750 PowerMac1,1 GNU/Linux
[PowerMac G3 (B&W) running Gentoo Linux]

hap% gcc --version
3.0.3
hap% uname -a
SunOS hap.lsa.umich.edu 5.8 Generic_117000-03 sun4u sparc 
SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
[SunFire 280R running Solaris 2.8]

esmiller@angevin ~ $ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 3.3.6 (Gentoo 3.3.6, ssp-3.3.6-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
esmiller@angevin ~ $ uname -a
Linux angevin 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 #1 SMP Mon Aug 22 07:24:08 EDT 2005 i686 
Pentium III (Coppermine) GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
[Dell Precision 420 running Gentoo Linux]
[works correctly on this box -- included for completeness.]


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