[Mono-devel-list] Network vs Host order in storage of IPAddress

[Dick Porter]

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 23:44 -0400, Ben Maurer wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> Miguel and I noticed tonight that IPAddress is odd in that it stores its
> data internally in host order. The problem with this is that if you
> serialize an IPAddress and open it on a computer with a different host
> ordering, the address will come out differently.

Take a look at the CVS history of that file and see how byte order has
been carefully arranged.

- Dick