diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 06386f4..ae8ab5a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,8 +6,11 @@ new features:
 
 corrections:
 	exec:...,pty did not kill child process under some circumstances; fixed
-	by correcting typo in xio-progcall.c (problem reported by
-	Ralph Forsythe) 
+	by correcting typo in xio-progcall.c (thanks to Ralph Forsythe for
+	reporting this problem) 
+
+	service name resolution failed due to byte order mistake
+	(thanks to James Sainsbury for reporting this problem)
 
 	corrected some print statements and variable names
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index 7e4ee98..ccae800 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"1.6.0.0+execpty"
+"1.6.0.0+execpty+servres"
diff --git a/test.sh b/test.sh
index 19e271d..26b2698 100755
--- a/test.sh
+++ b/test.sh
@@ -7848,6 +7848,54 @@ PORT=$((PORT+1))
 N=$((N+1))
 
 
+# test if service name resolution works; this was buggy in 1.5 and 1.6.0.0
+NAME=TCP4SERVICE
+case "$TESTS" in
+*%functions%*|*%ip4%*|*%ipapp%*|*%tcp%*|*%$NAME%*)
+TEST="$NAME: echo via connection to TCP V4 socket"
+# select a tcp entry from /etc/services, have a server listen on the port 
+# number and connect using the service name; with the bug, connection will to a
+# wrong port
+tf="$td/test$N.stdout"
+te="$td/test$N.stderr"
+tdiff="$td/test$N.diff"
+# find a service entry we do not need root for (>=1024; here >=1100 for ease)
+SERVENT="$(grep '^[a-z][a-z]*  *[1-9][1-9][0-9][0-9]/tcp' /etc/services |head -n 1)"
+SERVICE="$(echo $SERVENT |cut -d' ' -f1)"
+PORT="$(echo $SERVENT |sed 's/.* \([1-9][0-9]*\).*/\1/')"
+tsl="$PORT"
+ts="127.0.0.1:$SERVICE"
+da=$(date)
+CMD1="$SOCAT $opts TCP4-LISTEN:$tsl,reuseaddr PIPE"
+CMD2="$SOCAT $opts stdin!!stdout TCP4:$ts"
+printf "test $F_n $TEST... " $N
+$CMD1 >"$tf" 2>"${te}1" &
+pid1=$!
+waittcp4port $tsl 1
+echo "$da" |$CMD2 >>"$tf" 2>>"${te}2"
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+   $PRINTF "$FAILED: $SOCAT:\n"
+   echo "$CMD1 &"
+   cat "${te}1"
+   echo "$CMD2"
+   cat "${te}2"
+   numFAIL=$((numFAIL+1))
+elif ! echo "$da" |diff - "$tf" >"$tdiff"; then
+   $PRINTF "$FAILED\n"
+   cat "$tdiff"
+   numFAIL=$((numFAIL+1))
+else
+   $PRINTF "$OK\n"
+   if [ -n "$debug" ]; then cat "${te}1" "${te}2"; fi
+   numOK=$((numOK+1))
+fi
+kill $pid1 2>/dev/null
+wait ;;
+esac
+#PORT=$((PORT+1))
+N=$((N+1))
+
+
 echo "summary: $((N-1)) tests; $numOK ok, $numFAIL failed, $numCANT could not be performed"
 
 if [ "$numFAIL" -gt 0 ]; then
diff --git a/xio-ip.c b/xio-ip.c
index 0fc02db..df5a5b6 100644
--- a/xio-ip.c
+++ b/xio-ip.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* source: xio-ip.c */
-/* Copyright Gerhard Rieger 2001-2007 */
+/* Copyright Gerhard Rieger 2001-2008 */
 /* Published under the GNU General Public License V.2, see file COPYING */
 
 /* this file contains the source for IP related functions */
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ int xiogetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
 		   int family, int socktype, int protocol,
 		   union sockaddr_union *sau, socklen_t *socklen,
 		   unsigned long res_opts0, unsigned long res_opts1) {
-   int port = -1;
+   int port = -1;	/* port number in network byte order */
    char *numnode = NULL;
    size_t nodelen;
    unsigned long save_res_opts = 0;
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ int xiogetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
       with NIS), so we handle this specially */
    if (service && isdigit(service[0]&0xff)) {
       char *extra;
-      port = strtoul(service, &extra, 0);
+      port = htons(strtoul(service, &extra, 0));
       if (*extra != '\0') {
 	 Warn2("xiogetaddrinfo(, \"%s\", ...): extra trailing data \"%s\"",
 	       service, extra);
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ int xiogetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
 #endif
 	 return STAT_RETRYLATER;
       }
+      service = NULL;	/* do not resolve later again */
 
       record = res;
       if (family == PF_UNSPEC && xioopts.preferred_ip == '0') {
@@ -396,15 +397,15 @@ int xiogetaddrinfo(const char *node, const char *service,
 
 #if WITH_TCP || WITH_UDP
    if (service) {
-      port = parseport(service, family);
+      port = parseport(service, protocol);
    }
    if (port >= 0) {
       switch (family) {
 #if WITH_IP4
-      case PF_INET:  sau->ip4.sin_port  = htons(port); break;
+      case PF_INET:  sau->ip4.sin_port  = port; break;
 #endif /* WITH_IP4 */
 #if WITH_IP6
-      case PF_INET6: sau->ip6.sin6_port = htons(port); break;
+      case PF_INET6: sau->ip6.sin6_port = port; break;
 #endif /* WITH_IP6 */
       }
    }